NEW DELHI India and Australia will undertake their first joint naval exercise later this year even as the two along with Japan look at the pos- sibility of a trilateral exer- cise, a move that will like- ly rile China. India, Japan and Australia have decided to deepen their ties in all sec- tors, especially in the field of maritime security, defence sources said. The trio had held their first-ever high-level trilat- eral dialogue here last week which was attended by Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, Japanese vice foreign minister Akitaka Saiki and Australian secre- tary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Varghese. While they discussed a range of issues, maritime security, including free- dom of navigation in the South China Sea and trilat- eral maritime cooperation in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, topped the agenda. "The three countries have agreed to deepen their defence ties with each other. Discussion on a pos- sible trilateral naval exer- cise was held but no deci- sion has been taken," sources said. CONTD. ON P AGE 5 MUMBAI Temperature: 33 0 C Precipitation:10% Humidity:67% Wind: 19Km/hr HAQ SAADDA FIGHT FOR RIGHT Monday, June 15, 2015 Modi, Kejriwal "masters of nautan- ki": Digvijay Indo-China ties on upward trajectory after Xi-Modi visits: Zhang Dejiang Aamir sought by makers of a socially relevant movie that highlights pregnancy deaths P8 SRINAGAR Unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot at and killed a for- mer militant at Sopore town in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. "Unidentified gunmen shot dead Mehraj-ud-din Dar, a CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Unidentified gunmen kill former militant in Jammu and Kashmir LONDON An excited Prince George watched his first Trooping the Colour parade to mark his great grandmother Queen Elizabeth II's birthday here in the UK. Prince George later joined the royal family on the balcony CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Prince George makes first bal- cony appearance at Queen Elizabeth II's birthday NEW DELHI Over 15,000 people, includ- ing more than 3,000 security personnel, have been killed in Naxal violence in the last 35 years, an RTI query has revealed. According to the Union Home Ministry, while 12,177 civilians have fallen prey to CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Over 15,000 killed in Naxal violence since 1980: MHA NEW DELHI President Pranab Mukherjee has condoled the passing away of veteran par- liamentarian Manoranjan Bhakta. In a condolence message to his wife, Shanti Bhakta, the president has said, "I am sad to learn about the passing away of your husband Shri Manoranjan Bhakta. Shri CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Mukherjee condoles passing away of Manoranjan Bhakta NEW DELHI Amid the growing chorus for declassification of Netaji files, the new Chief Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma today said the policy in such mat- ters needed to be revisited so that more information about historical events come from "formal chan- nels". "Our past, much has been written (about it). A lot CONTD. ON P AGE 5 CIC Vijai Sharma favours relook at declassification policy GENEVA UN-sponsored talks aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen by bringing representatives of the warring factions to Geneva are expected to begin on Monday, a UN spokesman said. "We expect the parties to be here for what we call Geneva Consulatations tomor- row," spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told reporters on Sunday. Fawzi said representatives of both sides in the CONTD. ON P AGE 5 UN expects Yemen talks to start Monday in Geneva NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday wished the people of Odisha on Raja Parba. "Greetings to the people of Odisha on the occasion of Raja Parba. May this festival bring happiness and prosperity in CONTD. ON P AGE 5 PM Modi wishes Odisha on Raja Parba FATEHPUR In a shocking incident, a minor girl in Fatehpur was set on fire by four people for allegedly plucking mangoes from an orchard in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district. “The father of the girl has complained that the incident took place on Saturday when the girl was alone in the CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Minor girl set on fire for plucking mangoes in UP P3 P2 Weather Report DELHI Temperature: 43 0 C Precipitation:0% Humidity: 19% Wind: 16Km/hr KOLKA T A Temperature: 36 0 C Precipitation: 10% Humidity:67% Wind: 24Km/hr CHENNAI Temperature: 39 0 C Precipitation:0% Humidity:54% Wind: 21Km/hr LUCKNOW A day after the family members of Shahjahanpur-based journalist Jagendra Singh urged for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enquiry into his alleged murder case, Rahul Singh, the son the deceased has claimed that few ministers of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) are putting pressure on him and his family to take back the case. Speaking exclusively to Zee Media Corp, Rahul said, “Ministers are ready to offer any amount to compensate my father's death, as if some betting is going on. One is offering Rs 10 lakh while the another is ready to give Rs 20 lakh. They are luring us and can go to any extent so that we take back the case.” “They are even ready to provide job to me and my brother. One minister CONTD. ON P AGE 5 UP ministers luring us, putting pressure to withdraw case, says Jagendra Singh's son India and Australia to hold 1st joint naval exercise this year Vol. 1 Issue: 269 Price: Rs.3:00 Reg. No: DELENG/2014/58212 Delhi Edition Pages: 8 Website: www.saaddahaq.in Email: [email protected]NEW DELHI Soon after Sushma Swaraj's admission that she helped con- troversial IPL founder and enforcement directorate offender Lalit Modi with his travel document, BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday backed the External Affairs Minister. Saying that Sushma has already given her clarification on Twitter earlier today, Shah pointed that she helped an Indian national on humanitari- an grounds who wanted to travel to Portugal for the treat- ment of his cancer-stricken wife. "Sushma has already clari- fied her stand on Twitter. She helped Modi on humanitarian grounds and had asked British MP Keith Vaz to assist as per UK laws." While slamming the Opposition for demanding the Union Minister's resignation, Shah said that the issue of visa for Lalit Modi should not be politicised. Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, too, came to Sushma's defence say- ing what she did was right and that the government stands by her. Keith Vaz, one of Britain's longest- serving Indian-origin MPs, was reported earlier in the month to the parliamentary standards commissioner after lobbying visa officials on behalf of former IPL chief Lalit Modi. The Labour MP wrote to Sarah Rapson, the director- general of UK visas and immi- gration, inquiring whether Modi’s “travel document could be made available”, revealed a report in the Sunday Times. Modi fled India for England in 2010 after his passport was revoked amid claims of finan- cial irregularities. After a long and drawn out battle with Britain's immigra- tion authorities, the former BCCI official was granted leave to remain in March last year, allowing him to apply for British travel papers. BJP backs Sushma Swaraj for helping Lalit Modi on 'humanitarian grounds' LUCKNOW Much to her horror, Lucknow resident Tanisha Rai Singhania was open-mouthed when she saw a territory of worms float- ing in the Complan energy drink. The food supplement or the 'complete planned food' as the makers say, seems to have CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Dead worms found in Complan pack in Lucknow, sample sent for test RAIPUR Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will embark on a two?day visit of Chhattisgarh from Monday during which he will meet villagers affected by coal mining, power projects and wild elephants menace. Rahul will arrive at Bilaspur district headquar- ters in a special plane at around 8.30 AM and directly leave for Madanpur in Korba district where he will meet farmers and forest dwellers affect- ed by coal mining, Congress state unit's CONTD. ON P AGE 5 NEWS IN BRIEF BIHAR POLLS Former Bihar chief minister and Mahadalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi said on Sunday that his support to the Bharatiya Janata Party for the upcoming Assembly elections in Bihar was uncondi- tional. Talking to ANI he said, “We are (Hindustani Awam Morcha and the BJP) are ready to give unconditional support to each other. He also said that he would decide by June 25-26 whether he would fight the Assembly elections or not. The BJP had on Thursday received a shot in the arm ahead of the high-stakes CONTD. ON P AGE 5 NEW DELHI Dismayed over the govern- ment's dilly-dallying over the implementation of the 'One Rank, One Pension' (OROP) scheme, thousands of ex-ser- vicemen on Sunday staged protests across the country. Also, in an extreme step taken to ratchet up the pres- sure on the government, the ex-servicemen were said to have signed a 'petition in blood' and will hand it over to the President Pranab Mukherjee and PM Narendra Modi. The Indian ex-servicemen Movement (IESM), which is staging the rally, has also warned that the retired person- nel will also go on a hunger strike from tomorrow that is, June 15. "IESM vice-chairman Maj Gen Satbir Singh also wrote a letter to PM Narendra Modi on Sunday, expressing shock over PM Narendra Modi's demand of more time to resolve the OROP issue, calling it a com- plex affair. "ESM got a greater shock when you announced on 31 May 15 that even though PM CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Ex-servicemen hold nationwide protest over OROP delay, sign petition in blood Bihar Assembly elections: Support to BJP is 'unconditional', says Jitan Ram Manjhi Rahul Gandhi on C'garh visit from tomorrow, to take up farmers' issues Bangladesh looks to resolve Teesta with India after LBA deal DHAKA Buoyed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit during which "history" was made by inking the long-pending Land Boundary Agreement, Bangladesh now looks forward to resolving the crucial Teesta water- sharing issue soon. "History was made here," Bangladesh Foreign Minister A H Mahmud Ali told PTI, referring to ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement under which 111 border enclaves will be transferred to Bangladesh in exchange for 51 that will become part of India. "We are very happy and delighted," Ali said about the outcome of Modi's visit as he cred- ited the Prime Minister for bringing a new momentum to the CONTD. ON P AGE 5 NEW DELHI The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday came down heavily on External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for helping scam-tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi in getting British travel documents, and asked if she would also help underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, since he too is an Indian. Speaking to news agency ANI, AAP leader Ashutosh said, “Dawood Ibrahim was also an Indian, if something happens with his family, will Sushma Swaraj help him out?” Further dragging Prime Minister Narendra Modi into the row, Asutosh added, “After Sushma ji has admitted her fault, this is open and shut case; question is now that if PM Modi wants her to contin- ue in the cabinet or not.” Ashutosh even sought to know if the Prime Minister was aware of Swaraj's help to the former IPL chief and said he must come out with a state- ment to make clear facts. Rejecting Swaraj's defence that she helped Lalit Modi on "humanitarian grounds", Ashutosh alleged quid-pro- quo, saying the former IPL commissioner had helped her husband Swaraj Kaushal in securing admission for his nephew in a UK university in 2013 and he enjoyed proximi- ty to BJP leaders, including its president Amit Shah. The External Affairs CONTD. ON P AGE 5 Lalit Modi visa row: Dawood is also Indian, will Sushma help him out too? asks AAP
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NEW DELHIIndia and Australia will
undertake their first jointnaval exercise later thisyear even as the two alongwith Japan look at the pos-sibility of a trilateral exer-cise, a move that will like-ly rile China.
India, Japan andAustralia have decided todeepen their ties in all sec-tors, especially in the fieldof maritime security,defence sources said.
The trio had held theirfirst-ever high-level trilat-eral dialogue here lastweek which was attendedby Foreign Secretary SJaishankar, Japanese viceforeign minister Akitaka
Saiki and Australian secre-tary of the Department ofForeign Affairs and Trade,Peter Varghese.
While they discussed arange of issues, maritimesecurity, including free-dom of navigation in theSouth China Sea and trilat-eral maritime cooperationin the Indian Ocean andPacific Ocean, topped theagenda.
"The three countrieshave agreed to deepentheir defence ties with eachother. Discussion on a pos-sible trilateral naval exer-cise was held but no deci-sion has been taken,"sources said.
Indo-China ties on upward trajectoryafter Xi-Modi visits: Zhang Dejiang
Aamir sought by makers of a socially relevantmovie that highlights pregnancy deaths P8
SRINAGARUnidentified gunmen on
Sunday shot at and killed a for-mer militant at Sopore town inJammu and Kashmir, policesaid.
"Unidentified gunmen shotdead Mehraj-ud-din Dar, a
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Unidentified gunmen kill formermilitant in Jammu and Kashmir
LONDONAn excited Prince George
watched his first Trooping theColour parade to mark his greatgrandmother Queen ElizabethII's birthday here in the UK.
Prince George later joinedthe royal family on the balcony
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Prince George makes first bal-cony appearance at QueenElizabeth II's birthday
NEW DELHIOver 15,000 people, includ-
ing more than 3,000 securitypersonnel, have been killed inNaxal violence in the last 35years, an RTI query hasrevealed.
According to the UnionHome Ministry, while 12,177civilians have fallen prey to
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Over 15,000 killed in Naxalviolence since 1980: MHA
NEW DELHIPresident Pranab
Mukherjee has condoled thepassing away of veteran par-liamentarian ManoranjanBhakta.
In a condolence message tohis wife, Shanti Bhakta, thepresident has said, "I am sad to learn about the passingaway of your husband Shri Manoranjan Bhakta. Shri
declassification of Netaji files,the new Chief InformationCommissioner Vijai Sharmatoday said the policy in such mat-ters needed to be revisited so thatmore information about historicalevents come from "formal chan-nels". "Our past, much has been written (about it). A lot
members ofShah jahanpur-basedjournalist Jagendra Singhurged for a CentralBureau of Investigation(CBI) enquiry into hisalleged murder case,Rahul Singh, the son thedeceased has claimedthat few ministers of theruling Samajwadi Party(SP) are putting pressureon him and his family totake back the case.
Speaking exclusivelyto Zee Media Corp,Rahul said, “Ministersare ready to offer anyamount to compensatemy father's death, as if
some betting is going on.One is offering Rs 10lakh while the another isready to give Rs 20 lakh.They are luring us andcan go to any extent so
that we take back thecase.”
“They are even readyto provide job to me andmy brother. One minister
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
UP ministers luring us, putting pressure towithdraw case, says Jagendra Singh's son
India and Australia to hold 1stjoint naval exercise this year
admission that she helped con-troversial IPL founder andenforcement directorateoffender Lalit Modi with histravel document, BJP presidentAmit Shah on Sunday backedthe External Affairs Minister.
Saying that Sushma hasalready given her clarificationon Twitter earlier today, Shahpointed that she helped anIndian national on humanitari-an grounds who wanted totravel to Portugal for the treat-ment of his cancer-strickenwife.
"Sushma has already clari-fied her stand on Twitter. Shehelped Modi on humanitariangrounds and had asked BritishMP Keith Vaz to assist as perUK laws."
While slamming theOpposition for demanding theUnion Minister's resignation,Shah said that the issue of visafor Lalit Modi should not bepoliticised.
Meanwhile, Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh, too,
came to Sushma's defence say-ing what she did was right andthat the government stands byher.
Keith Vaz, one of Britain'slongest- serving Indian-originMPs, was reported earlier inthe month to the parliamentarystandards commissioner afterlobbying visa officials on
behalf of former IPL chiefLalit Modi.
The Labour MP wrote toSarah Rapson, the director-general of UK visas and immi-gration, inquiring whetherModi’s “travel document couldbe made available”, revealed areport in the Sunday Times.
Modi fled India for England
in 2010 after his passport wasrevoked amid claims of finan-cial irregularities.
After a long and drawn outbattle with Britain's immigra-tion authorities, the formerBCCI official was grantedleave to remain in March lastyear, allowing him to apply forBritish travel papers.
BJP backs Sushma Swaraj for helping Lalit Modi on 'humanitarian grounds'
LUCKNOWMuch to her horror, Lucknow
resident Tanisha Rai Singhaniawas open-mouthed when shesaw a territory of worms float-ing in the Complan energydrink.
The food supplement or the'complete planned food' as themakers say, seems to have
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Dead worms found in Complan packin Lucknow, sample sent for test
RAIPURCongress Vice President
Rahul Gandhi will embarkon a two?day visit ofChhattisgarh from Mondayduring which he will meetvillagers affected by coalmining, power projects andwild elephants menace.
Rahul will arrive atBilaspur district headquar-ters in a special plane ataround 8.30 AM anddirectly leave forMadanpur in Korba districtwhere he will meet farmers
and forest dwellers affect-ed by coal mining,
Congress state unit's CONTD. ON PAGE 5
NEWS IN BRIEF
BIHAR POLLSFormer Bihar chief
minister and Mahadalitleader Jitan RamManjhi said on Sundaythat his support to theBharatiya Janata Partyfor the upcomingAssembly elections inBihar was uncondi-tional.
Talking to ANI hesaid, “We are(Hindustani AwamMorcha and the BJP)are ready to giveunconditional supportto each other.
He also said that hewould decide by June
25-26 whether hewould fight theAssembly elections or
not.The BJP had on
Thursday received a
shot in the arm aheadof the high-stakes
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
NEW DELHIDismayed over the govern-
ment's dilly-dallying over theimplementation of the 'OneRank, One Pension' (OROP)scheme, thousands of ex-ser-vicemen on Sunday stagedprotests across the country.
Also, in an extreme steptaken to ratchet up the pres-sure on the government, theex-servicemen were said tohave signed a 'petition inblood' and will hand it over tothe President PranabMukherjee and PM NarendraModi.
The Indian ex-servicemenMovement (IESM), which isstaging the rally, has alsowarned that the retired person-nel will also go on a hunger
strike from tomorrow that is,June 15.
"IESM vice-chairman MajGen Satbir Singh also wrote aletter to PM Narendra Modi onSunday, expressing shock overPM Narendra Modi's demand
of more time to resolve theOROP issue, calling it a com-plex affair.
"ESM got a greater shockwhen you announced on 31May 15 that even though PM
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Ex-servicemen hold nationwide protestover OROP delay, sign petition in blood
Bihar Assembly elections: Support to BJPis 'unconditional', says Jitan Ram Manjhi
Rahul Gandhi on C'garh visit fromtomorrow, to take up farmers' issues
Bangladesh looks to resolveTeesta with India after LBA dealDHAKA
Buoyed by PrimeMinister NarendraModi's maiden visitduring which "history"was made by inking thelong-pending LandBoundary Agreement,Bangladesh now looksforward to resolving thecrucial Teesta water-sharing issue soon.
"History was madehere," BangladeshForeign Minister A HMahmud Ali told PTI,
referring to ratificationof the Land BoundaryAgreement under which111 border enclaveswill be transferred toBangladesh in exchangefor 51 that will becomepart of India.
"We are very happyand delighted," Ali saidabout the outcome ofModi's visit as he cred-ited the Prime Ministerfor bringing a newmomentum to the
CONTD. ON PAGE 5
NEW DELHIThe Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) on Sunday came downheavily on External AffairsMinister Sushma Swaraj forhelping scam-tainted formerIPL chief Lalit Modi in gettingBritish travel documents, andasked if she would also helpunderworld don DawoodIbrahim, since he too is anIndian.
Speaking to news agencyANI, AAP leader Ashutoshsaid, “Dawood Ibrahim wasalso an Indian, if somethinghappens with his family, willSushma Swaraj help him out?”Further dragging PrimeMinister Narendra Modi intothe row, Asutosh added, “AfterSushma ji has admitted herfault, this is open and shut
case; question is now that ifPM Modi wants her to contin-ue in the cabinet or not.”
Ashutosh even sought toknow if the Prime Ministerwas aware of Swaraj's help tothe former IPL chief and saidhe must come out with a state-ment to make clear facts.
Rejecting Swaraj's defencethat she helped Lalit Modi on"humanitarian grounds",Ashutosh alleged quid-pro-quo, saying the former IPLcommissioner had helped herhusband Swaraj Kaushal insecuring admission for hisnephew in a UK university in2013 and he enjoyed proximi-ty to BJP leaders, including itspresident Amit Shah.
The External Affairs CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Lalit Modi visa row: Dawood isalso Indian, will Sushma help
him out too? asks AAP
Government schools need improvementin quality: AAP surveyNEW DELHI
A survey by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) aimed atimproving education in Delhi government schools hasrevealed that the quality of education in governmentschools needs to be improved.
More than 60 percent of the students surveyed said itrequired them to take additional tuition after school.
Survey results also mentioned that science studentswere highly likely to study further after school. Studentsfrom arts or vocational courses were found to be takingup jobs ahead -- mostly to support their families.
"The survey helped us understand that sports andextra-curricular activities are not being given impor-tance in government schools. Students have also point-ed out a key aspect of cleanliness, which is lacking intheir schools," said a party official Rashmi Shrivastav,who was involved in conducting the survey.
Over 720 government schools with an average of 170students per school took part in this survey.
Shrivastav added that the survey enabled them toreceive feedback from the students studying at Delhi'sgovernment schools.
AAP releases list of department-wisebreakup of ACB arrestsNEW DELHI
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday released a list con-taining the department-wise breakup of the 35 officersarrested by the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB).
The list, which was released on twitter, informs thatthe maximum number of officers arrested were from theExcise Department (12), followed by the Delhi JalBoard (nine).
The list also reveals that one officer from the DelhiPolice was also arrested by the ACB.The BharatiyaJanata Party had earlier this month called for the ArvindKejriwal-led government in the city to release thenames of all the officers it has arrested or suspended oncharges of corruption.
The Delhi government`s anti-corruption posters,which have adorned the city, highlight the success of theanti-graft helpline, which has resulted in the arrest of 35officers and the suspension of 152 officials.
Suspected snooping device found inACB chief's officeNEW DELHI
A suspected recording device was found inside theoffice of Delhi Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) chiefMK Meena, days after his appointment amidst a face-off between the Delhi Lt Governor and Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal.
According to sources, the spy device was a recorderdisguised as a pen. It was spotted by Meena himselfwhile cleaning his desk, they added.
Soon after the discovery of the device, an investiga-tion was initiated to ascertain whether it was deliberate-ly planted there or left by mistake.
However, initial inquiries suggest that the device con-tains no video or audio recording. Still, police are look-ing to ascertain any likely motive that might have led tothe device being left behind in Meena's office. Delhi LtGovernor Najeeb Jung had appointed Meena aftersuperseding Kejriwal's hand-picked candidate for thepost, SS Yadav.
The AAP government had reacted sharply to the deci-sion. Shortly after his appointment, Meena was askedby Sukesh Kumar Jain, Secretary and Director(Vigilance), to go back to Delhi Police as it was pointedout to him that no such post exists in Delhi ACB.
Further, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia hadclaimed that Meena had tried to frame him in the caseof alleged suicide by Rajasthan-based farmer GajendraSingh at an AAP rally here.
Delhi court acquits 2 personsaccused of firing at police teamNEW DELHI
Two persons, accused of firing at a police team whichapprehended them following a chase here in 2010, havebeen acquitted by a Delhi court as it noted that contradic-tions in the version of witnesses raise "serious doubts"over the incident.
Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh acquittedSurjeet and Sonu Daggar, who were arrested by SpecialCell of Delhi Police in November 2010. Two pistolswere allegedly recovered from their possession.
"The lacunae coupled with the contradictions in theversion of the prosecution witnesses... Cast seriousdoubts on their version. The benefit of such doubt willhave to go in favour of the accused persons," the courtsaid. "The net result of above discussion is that prosecu-tion has been unable to prove the charges framed againstaccused Surjeet and Sonu Daggar beyond reasonabledoubt," it said.
According to police, Surjeet was awarded life term ina case and he had jumped parole while his associateSonu was involved in a double murder case and attemptto murder cases. They claimed that they had received atip-off on November 15, 2010, that Surjeet, who waswanted in cases lodged in Delhi and Haryana, and Sonuwould be coming here through Sindhu Border in a car.
It said that a police team was constituted and, afterthey spotted their car, they signalled to its driver to stopbut he increased speed and the other person sitting in thevehicle allegedly fired at the police team.
The police officials also fired back to stop their car butthe accused tried to flee from the spot near Narela andthey stopped their vehicle and fired again at the cops.
It was claimed that both the accused were apprehend-ed after a chase and two pistols were recovered fromtheir possession. During the trial, the counsel for theaccused argued that the version of police regarding themanner in which his clients were apprehended andrecoveries were effected from them was full of contra-dictions.
DELHI NEWS2 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | JUNE 15, 2015Fight For Right
Singh on Saturday dubbedPrime Minister NarendraModi and Delhi chief min-ister Arvind Kejriwal as"masters of nautanki(drama)" as leaders of AAPand BJP came out on thestreets here to clear thegarbage in Delhi.
In a post on Twitter,
Singh said "AAP startscleanliness drive after san-itation workers strike hasbeen called off. Photo opsfor AAP. Modi andKejriwal are masters of(nautanki)."
In a separate post, Singhclaimed Modi andKejriwal were engaged in a"noora kushti" (got-upfight) to hide the reality."
Singh's tweets came on aday when sanitation work-ers of Delhi met CongressVice President RahulGandhi at his residence,along with party leadersAjay Maken and RandipSingh Surjewala, to extendtheir thanks for his supportand participation in theirsit-in at East MCD headoffice yesterday.
Modi, Kejriwal "mastersof nautanki": Digvijay
NEW DELHIA total of 131 children
have been reunited withtheir kin by Delhi Policeunder a special operationstarted about six monthsback as the officialstraced out the families of11 more inmates of chil-dren's homes here. Underthe initiative, OperationMilap -- which waslaunched by DelhiPolice's Crime Branch inDecember last year -- theAnti-Human TraffickingUnit checks various chil-dren homes in Delhi andscrutinises the records ofsuch children whosedetails are either incom-plete or sketchy. Officialsthereafter closely engagewith such children toderive such informationabout their native place,etc. As would enable their
families to be traced, saidJoint Commissioner ofPolice (Crime), RavindraYadav. Talking about thelatest group of 11 childrento have benefited due toOperation Milap, Yadavsaid that their familieswere traced to Bihar,Uttar Pradesh and WestBengal. The eleven chil-dren, who are all in theage group 8-16 years,were sheltered at chil-dren's homes at TisHazari, Rohini andJahangirpuri. They werereunited with their fami-lies through the ChildWelfare Committee."Police in Delhi havebeen asked to screen anddocument all the childrenresiding at shelter homes,railway platforms, busstands, roads, religiousplaces, etc.
Operation Milap: 131 childrenreunited with kin by Delhi Police
Respite from heatwave: Rains in Delhi; IMDpredicts showers in parts of North, West India
NEW DELHIIn a respite from intense heatwave,
Delhiites woke up to showers and pleas-ant weather on Sunday with MetDepartment predicting rains over severalareas of northern and western part of thecountry in the next few days.
The cool weather spell is expected tolast for next few days with the MetDepartment predicting rains and cloudyskies till the end of the week.
"Weather will be pleasant for next 2-3days. Clouds will hover over parts ofNorth and West India, rainfall will contin-ue in coming days," India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) BP Yadav was quotedby a news agency on Saturday.
Heavy rains are expected in parts ofNagaland, Mizoram , Karnataka Kerala
and Manipur over the next few days,Yadav said.
Delhi-NCR witnessed massive duststorm accompanied with dark clouds andrains yesterday reducing visibility tozero.
However, the change in the weathergave respite from the searing heat andreduced the temperature by two degrees.
From past few days Delhi has been wit-nessing dust storms, which have travelledfrom Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana, asper MeT officials.
According to Skymet MeteorologyDivision in India, it is the WesternDisturbance over the hills along with theinduced cyclonic circulation over southRajasthan that has increased the pre-Monsoon activity over North India.
Pilanji village rape case: DCWslams Kejriwal government
NEW DELHITaking note of the
alleged rape case of agirl in the Pilanji vil-lage area, DelhiCommission forWomen (DCW) chiefBarkha Shukla Singhon Sunday cornered theArvind Kejriwal-ledAam Aadmi Party(AAP) Government formaking tall claimsabout women securityin the national capital.
"The Aam AadmiParty's (AAP) prioritywas women's safetyand today everythinghas vanished. Theyonly see LG, Centreand Congress. Restthey are not concernedwith the people ofDelhi, Delhi's women
and their issues. Theymade big promises ofsecurity," she said.
The DCW chief alsohighlighted the recentincident of sexualassault case being reg-istered against AAPMLA Somnath Bharti.
"The wife ofSomnath Bharti (LipikaMitra) who herself hasbeen so brutallyabused, cried in front ofmedia, showed hermarks. But when theycouldn't help her thenhow they can save thewomen of Delhi," shesaid.
Singh, who met thevictim and her familymembers at theSafdarjung Hospitalhere, said that the girl
has been brutallyraped.
"The incident tookplace between 9.30 and10 at Pilanji village in abuilding where onlytenants live. There arearound 110 rooms inthat. The girl's father isa chowmein seller andher mother is also in asimilar kind of profes-sion," said Singh.
"The child's fathersays he had met her at9: 30 and bought a tof-fee for her. Her mothersays that the girl cameback between 9:30-10,drenched in blood. Theway she has been bru-tally raped, chances ofher being able to evenwalk are bleak," sheadded.
Jitender Singh? Tomar allegesharassment by Delhi Police
NEW DELHIFormer Delhi law
minister JitenderSingh Tomar,accused in a fakedegree case, onSaturday alleged thatDelhi Police harassedhim during his four-day police custody.
Aam Aadmi Party
leader TomartoldMetropolitanMagistratePoojaAggarwal thathe washarassed byDelhi Policeduring hiscustody. The
former minister waspresented before thecourt after the expiryof his four-day policecustody.
Delhi Police arrest-ed Tomar on Tuesdayand slapped a case ofcheating, forgery andconspiracy againsthim.
accompanied by heavy rainswept the national capitaland the adjoining NCRregion on Saturday evening,bringing relief to peoplefrom the intense heat. But italso affected the road trafficand flight movement bybringing the visibilityalmost down to zero.
"Clouds will hover overparts of North and WestIndia, rainfall will continuein coming days," he added.
After a dust storm andrains struck the capital cityand nearby vicinities, Yadavsaid that the change inweather pattern was due tothe excessive summer heat
and harsh sun rays.The Met Department also
said that it expects the tem-peratures to drop further inthe coming days.
Delhi, which has beenrecording day temperaturesaround 43°C, has also regis-tered a drop in the maxi-mum temperatures. At 3:00PM the temperature was39.2°C which came down to28°C till 4:00 PM today.
Today's maximum tem-perature was recorded at39.7 degrees while the min-imum settled at 29 degrees -both a notch above the sea-son's average. The day'smaximum humidity wasrecorded at 82 percent.
From past few days Delhi
has been witnessing duststorms, which have trav-elled from Rajasthan,Punjab and Haryana, as perMeT officials.
According to SkymetMeteorology Division inIndia, it is the WesternDisturbance over the hillsalong with the inducedcyclonic circulation oversouth Rajasthan that hasincreased the pre-Monsoonactivity over North India.
Meanwhile, one DelhiPolice jawan was injuredwhen he was hit by a flyingobject during the duststormin Hauz Khaz area of thecity. Separately, a man wasseverely hurt when an elec-tric pole fell on him in Pool
Mithai area of North Delhi,as per news agency ANI.
Due to heavy rains sever-al areas of Delhi-NCR hadto face water-logging prob-lem and the traffic move-ment also got affected.
As per Delhi Police traf-fic, jams were reportedfrom south Delhi'sAdhchini Marg, Rao TulaRam Marg, Dhaula Kuan aswell as ITO, Minto Roadunderpass, and AzadMarket in central Delhi.Traffic was brought to acrawl at several other placesincluding Karol Bagh incentral Delhi, LakshmiNagar in east Delhi and onmany stretches of RingRoad.
CCTV in 5,000 Delhi buses in Iphase, Rs 100 cr to be spentNEW DELHI
In an effort to enhancesecurity in city buses, par-ticularly for women com-muters, Aam Aadmi Partygovernment has decided toinstall close circuit televi-sion (CCTV) cameras in5,000 buses in the firstphase, besides deployingtrained marshals.
The government willmake a provision ofaround Rs 100 crore in theupcoming Budget to exe-cute the flagship projectfor CCTV installation thatwill cover DTC andOrange-colour Clusterbuses
At present, there arearound 4,700 DTC busesout of which 924 standard-floor buses (yellow) are allset to be scrapped as theyhave completed their age.
Apart from that, 1,300cluster?buses, run by DelhiIntegrated Multi-ModelTransit System (DIMTS),are also plying in the capi-tal.
"Government has decid-ed to install CCTV cam-eras in 5,000 DTC andcluster buses. As per plan,three CCTV camears willbe installed in each bus tokeep a close vigil on everypassenger," TransportMinister Gopal Rai toldPTI.
According to the govern-ment, installation ofCCTVs will help to checkany attempt of violenceagainst women or eve-teasing in buses.
"CCTVs will be installedin all DTC low-floorbuses, including air condi-tioned buses. All the 1300cluster buses (orange) willalso come under this proj-ect," the minister said.
A senior official said thatgovernment will make aprovision of Rs 100 crorein the upcoming Budget toexecute the project.
Apart from CCTV proj-ect, around five thousandtrained marshals will alsosoon be deployed in allbuses to put a check onincidents of eve-teasingand violence againstwomen.
"At present, the govern-ment is currently providingtraining to personnel ofHome Guard and CivilDefence as marshals toprevent and deter crime,especially against women.
"Government will alsomake a provision of somefunds for them separatelyin the Budget.
"These marshals willsoon be deployed in thecity's buses plying in thenational capital," the offi-cial also said.
'Travelators' to bridge dis-tance at interchangemetro stations in DelhiNEW DELHI
Platform hopping is set to becomeeasier at key interchange stations ofDelhi Metro's upcoming Phase-III net-work with the introduction of travela-tors.
A total of 58 travelators, which isakin to a automated or moving walk-way, are being installed at DhaulaKuan and the upcoming RajouriGarden and Punjabi Bagh stations onLine 7.
The 58-km-long Line 7 (Pink Line)would connect Mukundpur to ShivVihar with 38 intervening stations.
Although DMRC is constructingfoot over-bridges (FOB) at all 11 inter-change stations of the corridor, travela-tors are being constructed at placeswhere a commuter has to travel morethan 300 metres. "For example the dis-tance between the existing DhaulaKuan station and the upcoming onethat would provide connectivity to theSouth Campus station would be 920metres which is close to 1 km," ametro official said.
NATIONAL /INTERNATIONAL3 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | JUNE 15, 2015Fight For Right
Punjab, no state hasacquired land under theland acquisition Act of2013, according to datafurnished by 20 states tothe Joint Committee ofParliament examining con-tentious amendments to thelaw.
One of the contentions ofthe NDA government forbringing amendmentsthrough an ordinance to theUPA's land law of 2013was that it was necessitatedbecause the states hadcomplained of difficulty inacquiring land under the
old Act.The states were asked by
the panel to furnish thedetails of land acquiredafter the 2013 law cameinto force followingOpposition's rejection ofthe contention that Modigovernment had to bringthe ordinance to enablestates to tide over difficul-ties in land acquisition.
The BJP-ruled Haryana,Maharashtra andJharkhand have not givenany data regarding landacquisition to theCommittee so far, while 20states and UnionTerritories have furnished
related information to thepanel.
Of these, 18 states haveacquired no land since the2013 Act came into force.
They include SamajwadiParty-ruled Uttar Pradesh,Congress-ruled Assam,West Bengal ruled byTMC, BJP-ruled Gujarat,Aam Aadmi Party-ruledDelhi and AIADMK-ruledTamil Nadu.
States and UnionTerritories which haveacquired "nil" land includeNortheastern states ofManipur, Meghalaya,Mizoram, Sikkim andTripura, besides Goa,
Chandigarh, Lakshadweep,Puducherry, Daman andDiu and Dadra and NagarHaveli.
The BJD government inOdisha has acquired303.564 acres of privateland under Right to FairCompensation andTransparency in LandAcquisition Rehabilitationand Resettlement (RFCT-LARR) Act, 2013.
The panel has asked thestate governments to con-firm whether the land hasbeen acquired underRFCTLARR Act, since therules have not been noti-fied yet.
JOHANNESBURGA 103-year-old
man and a 91-year-old woman havebecome the oldestcouple in the worldto get married,after they said theirvows in Britain onJune 13.GeorgeKirby and DoreenLuckie, who havebeen together for27 years, finallytied the knot at ahotel in the seasidetown of Eastbournein the presence ofclose friends andfamily, after theformer boxer pro-posed his long timegirlfriend onValentine`s Day,r e p o r t e dNews24.com.
With a combinedage of 194 years,the pair beat theprevious recordholders, the Frenchcouple FrancoisFernandez andM a d e l e i n eFrancineau, whohad a combinedage of 191
years.Expressingher happiness,Luckie, who hasseven children, 15grandchildren andseven great-grand-children with herhusband, said thatthey have noregrets about nottying the knot ear-
lier as they didn`twant to botherabout marriagebefore but eventu-ally they did it.
The bride walkedthe alley wearing awhite dress withblue flowers whilethe groom donneda suit and tie.
With a combined age of 194 years, Britishlovebirds crowned world's oldest newlyweds
Barring Odisha and Punjab, no stateacquired land under UPA law
KATHMANDUA national crisis caused
by the April 25 earthquakeand its aftermath has pushedan estimated one millionpeople below poverty line, aNepal government reporthas revealed.
Presenting the findings ofthe Post-Disaster NeedsAssessment (PDNA) reporton Saturday, NationalPlanning Commission Vice-chairman Govinda RajPokharel said it was esti-mated that the poverty-levelwould go up by more than2.5-3.5 percent.
As per the HumanDevelopment Report(2014), the poverty preva-lence in Nepal is 23.8 per-cent.
The 7.9 magnitude earth-quake on April 25 rocked asmany as 36 of the 75 Nepalidistricts and among them 14are worst hit where 8,800
people were killed, thou-sands injured and an esti-mated one million residentsdisplaced.
The devastating quakeand aftershocks damagedassets and properties valuedat $5.13 billion (NepaleseRs.513 billion), and the lossin terms of foreign earningsin different sectors is to thetune of $1.88 billion, thereport said.
The PDNA states thatNepal needs an estimated$6.66 billion, or nearly one-third of the country`s GrossDomestic Product.
The report will be tabledbefore the donor communi-ty at an international confer-ence on June 25 here to col-lect resources for therebuilding and reconstruc-tion efforts.
Over the last threedecades, Nepal had beenregistering fast improve-
ment on the HumanDevelopment Index.
"The earthquake hasaffected agriculture, educa-tion, water and sanitation,and health, the crucial ele-ments of human develop-ment. These people will turnpoor because of loss ofhouses; income-generatingopportunities; productiveassets such as seeds andlivestock; and durableassets such as assortedhousehold items rangingfrom basic kitchen utensilsto jewellery," the reportsaid.
"This has exposed the pit-fall of the poverty reductiondrive launched by the gov-ernment -- `The high degreeof vulnerability`," says aWorld Bank report, whichwas extended to theNational PlanningCommission to supplementthe Post Disaster Needs
Assessment.The districts ravaged by
the earthquake are not thepoorest in the country.
Around 26.5 per cent ofthe population residing inquake-affected rural areasare categorised as poor.This figure is equivalent tonational poverty rate.
On the other hand, only9.7 percent of the popula-tion living in quake-affect-ed urban areas live belowthe poverty line. Nepal`spoverty rate stood at 24.8per cent in 2013.
It means that around aquarter of the population inthat year was living on lessthan $1.25 a day. But if theinternational poverty line of$1.25 a day was raised to $2a day at that time, 57.3 per-cent of the populationwould have been cate-gorised as poor.
"What this means is that a
large proportion of Nepalihouseholds are just a sick-ness, a bad monsoon or nat-ural disaster away fromslipping back into poverty,"says the World Bank report.
Considering this, theearthquake will end uppushing 700,000 to 982,000people (2.5 to 3.5 percent ofthe population) into povertyin 2015-16, the reportadded.
According to the report,of the people who fall backinto poverty, roughly 50 to70 percent are likely to hailfrom rural central hills andmountains where overallvulnerability was very highprior to the earthquake.
"The earthquake is likelyto have obliterated all theselivelihood channels, partic-ularly for those with limitedaccess to other forms ofassets and credit markets,"it says.
Rouhani hit out on Sundayat critics of his drive for anuclear deal with majorpowers, saying they belit-tled the impact of sanc-tions on ordinary people.
"Those who say thatsanctions are not impor-tant probably don`t knowanything about people`swallets," Rouhani said in atelevised speech, addingthat they had raised thecost of imported goods by10 to 15 percent.
In recent weeks, thepresident`s conservativecritics have claimed thatthe main cause of Iran`seconomic woes is notWestern sanctionsimposed over its contro-
versial nuclear programmebut failings in governmentpolicy.
Tehran mayorMohammad BagherGhalibaf said earlier thismonth that "mismanage-
ment and a lack of plan-ning in the current andprevious governmentshave had more impact thansanctions".
Parliament speaker AliLarijani said only "20 to
30 percent of the econom-ic problems" of the coun-try were due to interna-tional sanctions.
Rouhani has made thequest for a deal lifting thesanctions in return forreining in Iran`s nuclearprogramme the centre-piece of his two years inpower.
Iran and world powersare working to a June 30deadline for a comprehen-sive agreement.
Sanctions imposed bythe European Union andthe United States on Iran`soil and financial sectorssince 2012 have plungedthe country into a deepeconomic crisis with infla-tion rising to more than 40percent.
Rajyavardhan Rathore saidon Sunday that theMyanmar operation was notcovert operation but overtand that the Indian Armysoldiers were in uniform.Talking to ANI he said,“This was not a covert oper-ation. In covert operation,soldiers don't wear uniform.In this operation, it wasovert, our soldiers were inuniform, TV journalistsshould know all this.”About how the operation byIndian Army had rattledPakistan, Rathore said,“Attack was somewhereelse but pain was felt else-where. Pakistan reacted,their PM also made a state-ment. Why even GeneralMusharraf gave a threaten-ing statement. He barely gotpermission to enter his owncountry, but threatenedIndia.” On his tweet on theoperation attracting criti-cism he maintained, "It issaid attack is best form ofdefense.1 had to attack but
in our country people have aproblem with that. Somejournalists called me andsaid that I should not havetweeted on chappan inchchaati." After the operationRathore had tweeted thefollowing:Indian Army hadcarried out a surgical strikeinside Myanmar on June09. The operation inMyanmar was carried outby a crack team of about 70commandos of the IndianArmy who finished theoperation within 40 min-utes, leaving 38 Naga insur-gents dead and seveninjured. The decision wastaken hours after the Naga
militants had killed 18 sol-diers in an ambush inChandel area of Manipur onJune 4 and clearance wasobtained from PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onthe night of June 7, soonafter his return fromBangladesh, sources hadsaid privy to the details, asper PTI. The commandos of21 Para, equipped withassault rifles, rocket launch-ers, grenades and nightvision goggles, were airdropped from Dhruv heli-copters, just inside theIndian territory near theborder with Myanmar,security sources had said.
Myanmar operation was not covert,our soldiers were in uniform: Union
Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore
MOMBASASuspected Shebab gunmen
raided a Kenyan military baseand briefly took over a villageon Sunday in the latest attackshighlighting the insecurity thatplagues parts of the country.
Both attacks in Lamu coun-ty on Kenya's coast close tothe border with Somalia, wereblamed on the Somali-led alQaeda affiliate that has inrecent months focused moreattention on Kenya.
Two Kenyan soldiers werealso killed in the pre-dawnassault on a military camp inBaure, said Colonel DavidObonyo.
Obonyo said weaponsincluding 13 AK-47 assaultrifles, five rocket-propelledgrenades and eight handgrenades were recovered.
Also early today, at least 60
militants raided the nearbytown of Mangai, ordering res-idents out of their homes andgathering them at a mosquewhere they preached for threehours, according to localmedia.
Chief Yusuf Nuri, a localofficial, told the Daily Nationnewspaper that the gunmenalso conducted prayers, ran-sacked a dispensary andburned mattresses at a pri-mary school before escaping.
Today's raids come on the
anniversary of attacks thatbegan in mid-June 2014 inwhich close to 100 peoplewere killed in a series ofarmed assaults on the town ofMpeketoni and surroundingvillages.
The attacks in Mpeketoni,close to the once-popular hol-iday island of Lamu, led to acollapse in tourism onKenya's coast after foreigngovernments warned theirnationals against travel to thearea.
Under pressure in Somaliawhere it has for years beenfighting to overthrow theWestern-backed government,Shebab is now increasinglytargeting Kenya.
In the group's deadliestattack to date four gunmenkilled 148 people, mostly stu-dents, at a university inGarissa in early April.
In 2013, four Shebab gun-men killed at least 67 peoplein an assault on the Westgatemall in the capital Nairobi.
Islamic militants raid army base and village in Kenya
Indo-China ties on upward trajectoryafter Xi-Modi visits: Zhang Dejiang
MUMBAISino-India ties have been taken
on an upward trajectory by therecent visits of Chinese PresidentXi Jinping and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, top Chineseleader Zhang Dejiang said today.
Zhang, who is chairman of thestanding committee of People'sNational Congress of China andthird in the heirarcy, is leading aChinese parliamentary delegationto India.
He also paid glowing tributes toDr Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis,who was part of the IndianMedical Mission to war-tornChina in 1938, saying he is thesymbol of Sino-Indian friendshipand his legacy should be carriedforward.
"Indians demonstrated theirfriendship with China in its gravesthour," he said while referring toKotnis' services and added thatKotnis is still commemorated andremembered in China and India.
Zhang said, "The visit ofChinese President Xi Jinping toIndia followed by Indian PrimeMinister Narendra Modi's visit toChina recently took the tiesbetween the two countries onupward trajectory."
"My trip here will keep up themomentum," the Chinese lader
said.Xi had visited India in
September last year while Modihad gone to China last month.
The visiting dignitary wasspeaking at a gathering aftermeeting the late physician's rela-tives and members of Dr KotnisMemorial committee. He alsoinaugurated an exhibition high-lighting Kotnis' life and times tomark the diamond jubilee cele-
bration of Indian MedicalMission to China.
A team of five Indian physi-cians, of which Kotnis was apart, had provided medical assis-tance to Chinese soldiers fight-ing the Japanese in 1938.
Zhang described Dr Kotnis asa symbol of Sino-Indian friend-ship and stressed the need tocarry forward his legacy.
In the eyes of Chinese people,
Dr Kotnis and Indian MedicalMission represent the great andfriendly people of India, he said.
"Dr Kotnis was a great friendof Chinese people. In 1938, atthe age of 28, he bade farewell tohis family in India and came toChina which was facingJapanese aggression. We remem-ber his noble character andshould carry forward his spirit,"Zhang said.
Ambedkar's statue vandalisedin Punjab, protests by Dalits
PHAGWARA (PUNJAB)A statue of BR Ambedkar was
allegedly vandalised at village Palahinear here on Monday, sparkingprotests by dalits who blocked roadsat many places in the district.
The statue's raised arm was foundtwisted and damaged in a park at vil-lage Palahi, police said. Protestingagainst the incident, members of dalitcommunity blocked traffic onPhagwara-Chandigarh bypass in frontof Palahi village, at Bhullarai cross-ing of the bypass and Phagwara-Palahi crossing on Phagwara-
Hoshiarpur road, they said. Led byBSP leader Jarnail Nangal andAmbedkar Sena Moolnivasi PunjabPresident Harbhajan Suman, protest-ers raised anti-government slogans.The protesters also threatened to callfor a bandh on Wednesday if the cul-prits are not arrested by then. Theyalleged that it was the second suchincident of vandalisation in two-and-half-months. Earlier, a statue ofAmbedkar was damaged in localPalahigate mohalla in the interveningnight of April 4-5 and police failed totrace the miscreants, they alleged.
BY SRUTHISAGAR YAMUNANIn May, the most popular Dalit political
leader in Tamil Nadu, ViduthalaiChiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader Thol.Thirumavalavan, took a decision thatcould herald a turning point for Dalit pol-itics in the State.
At a public meeting organised to conferthe ‘Ambedkar Sudar’ award onArundhati Roy in Chennai, Mr.Thirumavalavan made it clear that hisparty was no longer willing to play secondfiddle to the two Dravidian parties in theelectoral arena.
Emerging from the bitter negotiationsthat took place in the run-up to the LokSabha elections, when his party wasoffered merely two seats despite theabsence of any major player in theDravida Munnetra Kazhagam camp, Mr.Thirumavalavan declared that the VCKnow wants a share of power if others wantto benefit from its support base. His back-ing for any formation will now be solelyon the condition that after the 2016Assembly elections, his party would bepart of the government. In articulating thisstance, he sought the support of all thesmaller political parties in the State, say-ing that the majority governments of thepast five decades have managed to side-line emerging political forces by takingadvantage of electoral compulsions.
Revisiting the pastThe VCK’s emergence brought an alter-
native discourse to Dravidian politics inthe 1990s. For a long time, there had beensimmering discontent among the Dalits ofTamil Nadu about their exclusion fromexisting power structures and the contin-ued discrimination they faced in the socialsphere — despite the prevalent anti-casterhetoric in the State. This was largely dueto the mechanics of the Dravidian move-ment itself, which many scholars haveaccused of being centred around otherbackward classes and exclusive of theDalits in its functioning.
In the early 1990s, members of theVCK, a social organisation then, werebold enough to question even Dravidianicon E.V. Ramasamy’s method of socialengineering. While no aspersions werethrown on Periyar’s intentions, writerssuch as D. Ravikumar raised apprehen-sions about the caste-majoritarian strainvisible in the Dravidian movement. Thisform of politics essentially targeted theBrahmin caste’s dominance in the pre-
independence era, when the community’soverwhelming influence on administra-tion and society was contrasted to its rela-tively small population size. However, thenarrative, in the process, also becamedetrimental to the Dalits, whose sufferingnow continued at the hands of the increas-ingly powerful intermediate castes. Theother backward classes (OBC) becamethe biggest beneficiaries of Dravidian pol-itics. In other words, despite the years ofrhetoric, the fundamental hierarchicalstructure of the caste system continued toremain strong, with only the central play-ers being replaced.
Even among the intermediate castes,there was dissatisfaction when specificgroups gained immense political powerthrough the Dravidian outfits. This led tothe emergence of other caste-based organ-isations such as the Pattali Makkal Katchi,which espoused the cause of the numeri-cally strong but economically backwardVanniyar community.
The Dalit movement, therefore, startedas a counter-narrative that posed seriousquestions to the Dravidian parties. But itlost track of some of its original objec-tives when the Dalit parties decided to
experiment with elections and, in theprocess, were sucked into the bipolarpolitical game between the All India AnnaDravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) and the DMK. Given howelections are fought in Tamil Nadu, witheconomic clout as much a factor as polit-ical presence, the financially weaker Dalitparties have been forced to depend on thetwo principal players for electoral suc-cess.
These parties were also affected byinternal divisions, escalated by strong per-sonalities who lead them. They also facedsevere criticism for focussing on largerissues of Tamil identity than on the tra-vails of the community, even though theshift to larger issues could have originallybeen a tactic to transcend narrow, limited,caste-based mobilisation.
A non-Dravidian frontIt is against this background that Mr.
Thirumavalavan’s concept of power-shar-ing is significant. The VCK is hoping fora repeat in Tamil Nadu of what transpiredat the national level in the late 1990s. Thesuccess of the National DemocraticAlliance forced the Congress to adopt thesame strategy and provide regional play-
ers with ministerial berths at the Centre,thus breaking the single-party domina-tion. Even if one of the two Dravidianparties could be coerced to accept thepower sharing formula, the idea is that theother would also come around eventuallydue to pressures of electoral arithmetic.
Participation in government would alsomean access to power, which wouldenable Dalit parties to take populist wel-fare measures that are to their benefit,which would, in turn, improve their ownvisibility and base. But will the attempt tounite all the smaller parties for this projectbe successful?
For starters, the situation in Tamil Nadu,with the DMK at its weakest and theAIADMK facing legal uncertainties,seems to be conducive for the emergenceof an alternative arrangement to single-party majority rule.
However, after the VCK mooted theconcept of power sharing, no party it hasreached out to has thus far provided anyserious commitment to remaining loyal tothe project, though representatives of theMarumalarchi Dravida MunnetraKazhagam (MDMK), the Tamil ManilaCongress, the Left parties, and theCongress have participated in discus-sions.
Quite significantly, despite the mount-ing criticism on majority governmentsled by the two Dravidian parties, Mr.Thirumavalavan has not openly delinkedhimself from the DMK camp, whichsomewhat undermines the seriousness ofhis campaign. His arguments tilt moretowards electoral strategies rather thanarticulating serious ideological questionsfrom the platform and point of view ofDalit politics.
There are also contradictions betweenthe parties the VCK is trying to unite.While the Left has already ruled out hold-ing hands with the DMK or the AIADMKfor the Assembly polls, others such as theMDMK seem to be gravitating towardsthe DMK. Also, what these smaller par-ties could achieve with a front of theirown, given the limited vote share theycommand, is a question.
If the project fails, the VCK could bestaring at a serious situation where itwould be forced to go back to negotiatingwith the DMK or AIADMK for a fewseats. In that happens, its credibilitywould take a massive beating and thiscould further harm Dalit politics.
Monday | June 15 2015
BY GAUTAM BHATIA
The smart city is an urban meansto enhance the use of munici-pal utilities and public servic-
es. Its reliance on computerised dataand digitisation allows for an effi-cient allocation of resources and amore equitable distribution to cityconsumers.
Is such a description an adequatefoundation for the new Indian city?
For the most part, the Western def-inition of the smart city is spineless,if not altogether redundant in India— a mere glossing over of civic serv-ices and infrastructure. The urbanmigrant, seeking city employment, ismarginalised in ways that go muchbeyond just needing improved trans-port, roads or utilities. Without anycultural affinity to the place, he is arudderless atom with little or noattachment. For him, the city is anunformed rough frontier, a temporarymarket place where everyone lives ina semi-hard rubble of makeshifthouses and tenements, extractingfavours, exchanging livelihoods. Hiscity’s incompleteness and visibleineptness subsume everything into aneutral brown haze — a torturoushuman and material composition ofhabitation, excrement, movement ...
Urban despairThe formal city alongside, grows
with different considerations. Giventhe desperate demand for space, onlyits constantly changing and unmadecharacter is apparent. Behind grimy,monsoon-stained walls and dust-laden, glass facades, people buildaccording to antiquated regulationsand half-baked formulas, addingrooms, breaking walls, enclosing bal-conies. Like the tenements, the citythey make appears as a shifting,unfocussed transformation of mason-ry — irregular, disjointed, even ille-gal — an urban landscape on whichthe paint never dries. Without socialconnections or public life, the placetoo only has an air of purposelessnessand futility, with each man for him-self.
Such unstructured physical blightalso reflects in a daily atmosphere ofurban despair. Wherever you go, you
come face to face with the sad conse-quence of a degenerate, defeated city.Tired faces greet you behind bankcomputers, broken bricks andgarbage float on roads, shabby gov-ernment departments operate withofficials “not in their chair”; on thestreet, people’s movement is sluggishand shambling, expressions sour,even depraved. Unquencheddemands for water supply, electricity,rations, school admissions, licencesand sanctions, make life a daily bat-tle. Without museums, walkingspace, gardens, shaded parks or anypublic engagement, the rougherstrains of urban living take centrestage: rape, molestation, road rageare the symptoms of general urbanindifference and the dislocation thatcomes from migration and disparity.With an implicit mistrust of everyonearound, is it a wonder that peopleshoot each other over a wronglyparked car, or a servant kills an elder-ly couple for a pocket full of change?
When daily survival is the primaryfocus of Indian urbanity, the culturallife of the city becomes a laughableideal. Music, sports, art, recreation
and social life assume secondaryimportance. The freshness of Danishparks, the thrill of a Los Angelesclover leaf exchange, the sidewalkcafés of Paris or Istanbul, and themuseums of New York — cultural,engineering, visual and sensoryfamiliarity rarely play a role in Indiancity routines.
The city and considerationsThe forces and demands that press
against the Indian city daily areformed out of entirely rudimentaryconsiderations. Shrinking homes,deteriorating air, poor sanitation andoverstretched transport have left thecity resident with low expectations.In the next decade, 35 towns willgrow into mega cities, each with apopulation above 10 million. Withinthese monuments to third worldurbanism, life will grind to a halt: thecurrent 60 per cent of slums will riseto a whopping 90 per cent, trafficmovement will decrease to cyclespeed of five kmph, and family occu-pancy space will shrink from thepresent 200 square feet to a mere 80square feet. What this foretells for theprovision of basic civic necessities of
these places is a painful, unansweredquestion. Their security, their socialand cultural life, their state of well-being, remain an unasked question.
However bleak this scenario, thepessimism need not translate intofuture planning. If anything, the plansfor Mr. Modi’s hundred cities andindustrial corridors must look in analtogether different direction.
The new cityUnlike its medieval conception as a
place bounded by walls and gates, thenew city, once built, will stretchbeyond visibility and physical com-prehension. It will house people,places, incidents and ideals that maynever intersect with each other. Butwithin the vast agglomeration will bethe existence of smaller cities, placeswith personal boundaries with con-stant engagements for its local resi-dents.
In many ways, these smaller,localised cities must enthral andengage in the traditional way. Such atraditional intent can only beachieved through a radical reversal ofproperty rights, zoning, bylaws andcivic design.
Nowhere in the new scheme shouldthe government extend any form ofhome or commercial ownership toprivate parties. Even if places arebuilt in partnership with builders ordevelopers, the ideals of leased andrental building would allow forgreater mobility of city residents. Inthe absence of gated communities,people would not just live, work andrecreate without unnecessary com-mutes, but the freedom of mixed-useliving would additionally create amore engaging social life. The pri-vatisation of social life in the Indiancity — pool, movies, libraries, playareas — has made the city insular andprotected. By returning the facilitiesto the public realm, the city wouldgain a more vibrant collective life.
One-dimensional surfaceMoreover, the Indian city has so far
been an entirely one-dimensional sur-face experience. Homes, offices,cars, pedestrians all inhabit theground, despite conflicting condi-tions of ecology or occupancy. Themismatch between pedestrians andvehicles, landscape and road is itselfenough reason to consider seriousseparations for each condition; and torethink the possibilities of makingplaces away from the ground — up inthe air, or underground, as in the skybridges of Chicago, the undergroundcommerce of Minneapolis. The ideawould be to provoke the users into amore comprehensive realisation ofthe third dimension. In cities short ofusable ground space, the earth belowand the rarefied sky would offernumerous architectural possibilities.
Best city experiencesThe best cities are ironically built
on undemocratic ideals. Even wheninnovating and providing opportuni-ty, they enforce severe restrictions ondaily life. London would not havesome of the world’s most naturalurban parks without ordinances con-trolling the building around them,and the imposition of a congestiontax that restricts polluting cars fromentering the centre of town.Singapore’s auction of a limitednumber of vehicle registrationsachieves a similar purpose. Along
the East Coast of the U.S., manysmall towns are designated forpedestrians only. Such restrictionshave been designed for the largercommon good, and clearly state pref-erences for better public health,green space, and enriching the expe-rience of surrounding heritage.Similar restrictive practices in futurecivic design will be necessary if theproblems of the current city are to beavoided.
Of the many threats to urban life,nothing is more repressive and mind-numbing than daily living withoutspontaneity, imagination and a readydose of the unfamiliar. A radicalmove away from current city con-ventions would allow greater densi-ties and more fluid approaches todesign. Hong Kong’s elevated side-walks and street escalators allowpeople to cross into buildings with-out descending to street level.Houses in traditional Italian townsconnect with each other above thestreets. In some of the new towns inSpain, train stations are incorporatedin municipal and commercial struc-tures. The importance of innovativecombinations of public uses lends acivic uniqueness to utilitarian places.
What would it take to combineMumbai’s Victoria Terminus with acricket stadium or a public club? Orretrofitting Delhi’s main Metro sta-tions with swimming pools orlibraries? Could cycle tracks inBengaluru have benefited from analignment along the city park sys-tem? Like the public chaikhannas ofUzbekistan or the baths of Turkey,wouldn’t the Indian public too gainfrom the insertion of innovativesocial uses inserted into its dailymovement through the city?
At this stage in the life of India’solder cities, perhaps that is too muchto ask. But the designs for India’shundred new cities cannot beallowed to emerge from a mere busi-ness model; without an innovative,cultural and social blueprint, theplans might as well be shelved.
(Gautam Bhatia is a Delhi-basedarchitect and sculptor.)
The Ukraine imbroglio
The Dalit moment of truth
For a smart city with a heart
EDITORIAL4 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | JUNE 15, 2015Fight For Right
The G-7 nations put on a brave face againstRussia at a summit held this week in theBavarian Alps and decided to continue their
sanctions against President Vladimir Putin for whatthey called his war in Ukraine. U.S. President BarackObama in fact accused Mr. Putin of “wrecking hiscountry in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to recre-ate the glories of the Soviet empire”. Russia coun-tered by warning that it would prolong its own count-er-sanctions, indicating there would not be any changein its Ukraine policy. While all this is happening, afresh outbreak of violence between government troopsand pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine isthreatening to derail a tenuous ceasefire. Ukraine ispaying a heavy price for this stand-off. It has lostCrimea to Russia, is fighting a deadly civil war in theeast, and its economy is in a state of collapse, it hav-ing contracted by nearly 18 per cent in the first quar-ter of 2015.
The real crisis of Ukraine is that it is caught in agame of one-upmanship between the West and Russia.The West wants to punish Russia for its annexation ofCrimea and for helping separatists in eastern Ukraine.Moscow, on the other hand, sees Western involvementin the ouster of Ukraine’s pro-Moscow PresidentViktor Yanukovych, and seems determined to resistthe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s outreach toits backyard. If the West’s real intention is to getRussia to change its policy towards Ukraine, it shouldrethink its sanctions regime, which has been demon-strably ineffective over the past 15 months.Supporters of the sanctions might argue that thoseworked in the case of Iran and might work in Russia’scase as well. But Russia is not Iran. It is a geopoliti-cal giant, a former superpower and a huge countrythat still has substantial leveraging power in CentralAsia and Eastern Europe. Given the way policy-mak-ing works in the Kremlin, it is illogical to believe thatany kind of coercion would work against Mr. Putin.Besides, there is little to suggest that the Western pol-icy of isolating Russia is working at all. More than ayear after Russia was suspended from the G-8 follow-ing its annexation of Crimea, the leading powers stillneed Russia to deal with pressing global issues rang-ing from the Iranian nuclear talks to the Syrian civilwar. So a more pragmatic approach would be to starta diplomatic engagement in a mutually conduciveenvironment. The inept handling by both sides ofwhat was a domestic issue in Ukraine has turned itinto a regional problem. Left unchecked, the problemcould well turn into a war. It is high time the Westand Moscow set aside rhetoric and started addressingthe problem directly.
The forces and demands that press against the Indian city daily areformed out of entirely rudimentary considerations. Shrinking
homes, deteriorating air, poor sanitation and overstretched transporthave left the city resident with low expectations. In the next decade,35 towns will grow into mega cities, each with a population above10 million. Within these monuments to third world urbanism, lifewill grind to a halt: the current 60 per cent of slums will rise to a
whopping 90 per cent, traffic movement will decrease to cycle speedof five kmph, and family occupancy space will shrink from the pres-ent 200 square feet to a mere 80 square feet. What this foretells forthe provision of basic civic necessities of these places is a painful,unanswered question. Their security, their social and cultural life,
their state of well-being, remain an unasked question.
In the early 1990s, members of the VCK, a social organisa-tion then, were bold enough to question even Dravidian icon
E.V. Ramasamy’s method of social engineering. While noaspersions were thrown on Periyar’s intentions, writers such
as D. Ravikumar raised apprehensions about the caste-majori-tarian strain visible in the Dravidian movement. This form ofpolitics essentially targeted the Brahmin caste’s dominance inthe pre-independence era, when the community’s overwhelm-ing influence on administration and society was contrasted toits relatively small population size. However, the narrative, inthe process, also became detrimental to the Dalits, whose suf-fering now continued at the hands of the increasingly power-
ful intermediate castes. The other backward classes (OBC)became the biggest beneficiaries of Dravidian politics. In
other words, despite the years of rhetoric, the fundamentalhierarchical structure of the caste system continued to remain
strong, with only the central players being replaced.
5 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | JUNE 15, 2015Fight for right
Lalit Modi...Minister had earlier admitted to helping
Lalit Modi with his travel documents, butmade it clear that she did so only onhumanitarian grounds.
Amid calls for her resignation by theopposition parties, Swaraj tried to clarifyher position via a series of tweets.
Swaraj said that she took a humanitarianview of Modi's case since his wife wassuffering from cancer.
"Taking a humanitarian view, I con-veyed to the British High Commissionerthat - 'British Government should exam-ine the request of Lalit Modi as per Britishrules and regulations.' If the BritishGovernment chooses to give travel docu-ments to Lalit Modi that will not spoil ourbilateral relations," she tweeted.
Ex-servicemenhold...
is committed to OROP but it is a verycomplex issue and needs more time tosolve it," says the letter. The letter wastweeted by a retired Army Colonel NRKurup.
PM Modi who has time and again prom-ised to bring OROP in force, has soughtmore time to implement the OROP, call-ing it a complicated issue.
However, it seems that the ex-service-men's patience is soon running out asdespite various rounds of talks with topministers in the government, there hasbeen no concrete conclusion as to whenthe OROP will come in effect.
Colonel Kurup also mocked the Modigovernment over not fixing a particulardate for the OROP implementation, say-ing that since the government had fourmore years to go, the OROP might have towait till then.
The rally comes just two days after theArmy veterans wrote a letter to theFinance Minister Arun Jaitley, seeking aspecific date for the implementation ofOROP.
In the letter, the ex-servicemen bodycalled the OROP a flagrant and emotionalissue and urged Jaitley to come to aspeedy conclusion.
The 'One Rank, One Pension' issue ishanging fire since last 40 years and Modihimself has taunted the previous govern-ments of not doing enough to implementit.
If 'One Rank One Pension' gets imple-mented it will benefit lakhs of ex-Armypersonnel and war widows as OROPmeans that two retired soldiers havingsame rank and same length of serviceshould get same pension irrespective oftheir date of retirement.
Bihar Assembly ...Bihar assembly elections, with Manjhi
announcing a tie-up with it to defeat the“unholy” alliance of Nitish Kumar andLalu Prasad.
Making the announcement after a meet-ing with BJP President Amit Shah, Manjhihad said a strong alliance was needed todefeat the 'Janata Parivar' in the upcomingAssembly elections.
“In Bihar, an unholy alliance betweenNitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad has beenformed. I spoke to Amit Shah in this con-text. We have to work together to preventLalu and Nitish from coming to power,"Manjhi had told reporters after the 30-minute meeting with the BJP chief, as perPTI.
The Mahadalit leader was being wooedby RJD chief Lalu Prasad but he had madeit clear he would not be part of any forma-tion which includes his bete noire NitishKumar, who ousted him as CM.
Manjhi said he had held rallies acrossthe state where the "consensus" was to get"rid" of the Lalu-Nitish combine.
"Yadavs feel that Lalu has betrayedthem by joining hands with Nitish, whoput thousands of Yadavs behind bars onpetty charges. They no longer think thatLalu is their leader. Under these circum-stances I felt that an alternative was need-ed," he had said.
The former CM had said he will contin-ue to run Hindustani Awam Morcha and itwould become "a part and parcel" of NDAto "destroy" the Lalu-Nitish alliance.
Asked about seat-sharing agreementwith BJP, he had then said said, "It hasbeen decided that we will go to whateverextent possible to help each other. Wehave not held any seat-sharing discussion.Our core committee will meet on June 15and take a decision there. Our prepara-tions are in all 243 seats."
On whether there will be a CM candi-date of the alliance, he had said, "It willbe better if the name of CM is announcedafter the election."
He had noted that BJP had earlier decid-ed not to project anyone as its chief min-isterial candidate and it will take a call onthe issue.
UP ministers...
has even said that they will give me atop position at Zila Panchayat, where Iwill be getting Rs 35000 per month. Also,the ministers have said that they are readyto give Rs 10 lakh along with the job,”Rahul added.
In an veiled attempt to threatenJagendra's family, as per Rahul, the minis-ters said, “Think twice about taking anystep. This media will not be with youalways. If we put Rs 50,000 in an envelopand put into their pockets nobody willcome to rescue you and your family.”
Further talking to Zee News reporterPawan, Rahul said, “SI Vinod Mishra toldus that your father has burnt himself andthe minister has not done anything. Youdo one thing, take Rs 8-10 lakh for yourfather's treatment. We will also provideyou government job.”
Although the Uttar Pradesh governmenthad yesterday suspended five policemenwho are suspected to be involved in thealleged murder case, the family membersare reiterating their demands of a CBIprobe into the said case.
In order to put pressure on the state gov-ernment for meeting their demands, thefamily members of late Jagendra Singhhave started a hunger-strike from today.
Reportedly, Jagendra Singh was setablaze by Uttar Pradesh minister RamMurti Singh Verma's henchmen and somepolice officials on June 1.
Singh succumbed to his burn injuries ina Lucknow hospital a week later on June8.
Shahjahanpur Police, earlier, registereda criminal FIR against eight persons,including the minister, in connection withthe case. However, no arrests have, beenmade so far.
India and...They added that India and Australia will
undertake their first joint naval exerciselater this year.
The naval exercise with Australia islikely to be held side-by-side with a simi-lar Indian exercise with Japan scheduledlater in September-October, the sourcessaid.
China had reacted sharply earlier when,in 2007, the three nations had carried outsuch joint talks with the US.
Following the talks, Australia and Japanhad taken part in the bilateral exercisebetween India and US called the 'MalabarExercise', which had irked China.
While the US was not part of the trilat-eral discussions this time around,Washington is the main security ally ofboth Japan and Australia.
The US is "rebalancing" itself to AsiaPacific and is keen that India, Japan andAustralia deepen their ties.
Following last week's meeting, Japanesevice foreign minister Saiki had said India,Japan and Australia are on the "samepage" over increasing assertiveness ofChina in the disputed South China Sea.
Asserting that an aggressive posture wasa matter of grave concern to his country,Saiki had said the issue was discussed atlength.
Bangladeshlooks...
bilateral ties and said Dhaka alwayswanted to have a deeper relationship withIndia.
Calling ratification of the LBA betweenthe two countries a major milestone intaking forward the engagement in manymore areas, Ali said the common man toocould feel the renewed vigour in bilateralties.
Noting that Modi's June 6-7 visit laidthe foundation for a much "stronger andcloser" relationship, the ForeignMinister?exuded confidence of resolvingthe Teesta water sharing issue soon.
"We are hopeful (of finalising it). Wehave to work through. We have to buildupon the goodwill and the camaraderiethat has been generated during Modi'svisit. We have to work continuously," hesaid.
During the visit here, Modi had alsoexpressed confidence of finding a "fairsolution" to the long-pending Teesta andFeni river water sharing issue.
Teesta water is crucial for Bangladesh,especially in the leanest period fromDecember to March when the water flowoften temporarily comes down to less than1,000 cusecs from 5,000 cusecs.
Talking about Modi's reference toIndia's support to Bangladesh LiberationWar, Ali said both the countries must"restore the sense of togetherness, senseof partnership" which was evident duringthe country's "freedom struggle".
"He said that he thought we are reliving1971. That's the spirit. We are absolutelywith him. This is the way to go forward,"Ali said, adding the relationship betweenthe two countries will grow leaps andbounds in days to come.
Praising Modi, Ali said it was becauseof his "dynamic" leadership that biparti-san support was possible in IndianParliament to the Constitution amendmentbill providing for settling of the 41-year-old land boundary dispute.
"He has also brought together all theparties in Parliament. That was a tremen-dous achievement," he said.
lagers there. Later, he will go to Kudmurawhere he will meet villagers bearing thebrunt of wild elephants' menace, Trivedisaid.
On Tuesday morning, Rahul will takeout a foot march along with farmers, partyleaders and workers from Saradih villageto Dabhra in Janjgir-Champa district cov-ering a distance of around 10 kms, Trivedisaid.
The state government has been con-structing seven barrages on Mahanadiriver there, including the barrages atSaradih, Biraoni, Kalma and Basantpurvillages, to supply water to over 40 powerplants proposed to come up in the pre-dominantly agricultural district, he said.
As many as 10 villages are falling in thesubmergence area of these barrages, butso far local administration has neitherinformed villagers about it nor taken anystep for their settlement, he alleged.
On Tuesday afternoon, the CongressVice President will address a public meet-ing in Dabhra before concluding his tour,he added.
Mukherjee con-doles...
Bhakta was a veteran Parliamentarianwho understood the pulse of the people.
In his long public career, he madeimportant contributions towards the wel-fare of the people, particularly that ofAndaman and Nicobar Islands.
His services to the nation as a formerParliamentarian and social worker willalways be remembered.
Please accept my heartfelt condolencesand convey the same to the rest of thefamily. May the Almighty give you andyour family the strengthand courage tobear this irreparable loss".
UN expects ...Yemeni conflict were expected to be in
the Swiss city on Sunday night.The exiled, internationally-recognised
government of President AbedrabboMansour Hadi said its delegation flew toGeneva on Saturday.
But representatives of the Iran-backedShiite Huthi rebels and of former presi-dent Ali Abdullah Saleh`s GeneralPeople`s Congress refused to board a UNplane from Sanaa to Geneva on Saturday.
A Huthi official said the rebels` refusalwas grounded in the fact the plane wasdue to stop off in Saudi Arabia -- which isleading a fierce campaign of air strikesagainst them.
Should the talks kick off in time, Fawzisaid there would be "extremely intensiveconsultations day and night".
"We still hope that the parties willobserve a humanitarian pause," he added.
The UN Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have both calledfor a renewed humanitarian pause in thefighting following May`s truce.
The talks brokered by UN envoy IsmailOuld Cheikh Ahmed would be aimed atsecuring a ceasefire, agreeing on a with-drawal plan for the Huthis and stepping updeliveries of humanitarian aid.
The Security Council this week heard areport from new UN aid chief StephenO`Brien, who described Yemen`s humani-tarian crisis as "catastrophic," with 20million civilians in need of aid -- 80 per-cent of the population.
CIC Vijai ...has been written and reliance has also
been placed on whatever has been avail-able, but if it is available through formal
channels, then there is a certain qualitywhich is missing if it is through otherchannels," 64-year-old Sharma, a retiredIAS officer, told PTI.
He was asked if information about mys-terious disappearance of Netaji SubhasChandra Bose and the controversy sur-rounding his reported death in a planecrash, a pre-independence occurrence, canbe disclosed in bits and pieces, resultingin an incorrect picture being presentedand reputations being sullied.
Sharma said, "A very clear trend shouldbe more and more information coming outthrough more formal channels."
"If some sifting or filtering needs to bedone then those with great minds andunderstanding and insight can get togeth-er and work it out. Because generalknowledge is one thing but if it has certainunderpinning then its quality gets a littleembossed," he said.
A controversy had recently broken outfollowing reports that Netaji?s family waskept under surveillance by theIntelligence Bureau for 20 years, much ofit during the tenure of Jawaharlal Nehru.
"Sometimes the barriers which you readin formal documents may be you don'tneed them. So a revisit is required," hesaid stressing on the need for a relook atthe declassification policy.
Sharma cited a case before him wherehe felt a 50-year-old correspondencebetween a Governor and the President ofIndia can be disclosed despite objectionsfrom the Home Ministry.
The CIC said he had been telling publicauthorities that so much of informationabout global events that was years agoconsidered very confidential and secrethas been revealed.
"They have been revealed because ofrequirement of research and as the adagegoes lessons of history..... You cannot getlesson in history, and getting a lesson is agood thing, until you have the informa-tion," he said.
Unidentified gun-men..
former militant of Jammu KashmirLiberation Front (JKLF) outside his homein Sopore town this morning. Dar died onthe spot," a senior police officer toldIANS in Srinagar.
This is the third mysterious killing byunidentified gunmen in the last six days.
On Tuesday (June 9), the gunmen hadkilled Altaf Sheikh, a former militant inSopore town.
On Friday (June 12), Khurshid AhmedBhatt, an activist of hardline separatistleader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's Tehreek-e-Hurriyat party was killed in Bomai(Sopore) .
No guerrilla group has owned responsi-bility for these killings.
Geelani has blamed 'Indian agents' forthese killings.
Prince George...of the palace to wave to the crowds.His mother Kate Middleton also made
her first royal appearance since the birthof sister Princess Charlotte last month tomark the traditional event held in mid-June to commemorate the Queen's actualbirthday on April 21.
Hundreds gathered to witness the cere-monial ride and loud cheers went up as acarriage carrying the Duchess ofCambridge Kate, the Duchess of CornwallCamilla and Prince Harry left the palace.
Prince William rode on earlier on horse-back with his father Prince Charles.
The event marked the first time theQueen has been seen at her birthday cele-brations with her heir Prince Charles andheirs apparent Prince William and PrinceGeorge. More than 1,000 soldiers tookpart in the traditional display of armydrill, music and horsemanship.
The Royal Air Force said most of theflypast had to be cancelled due to badweather.
'Trooping the Colour' has its origins intraditional preparations for battle.Colours, or flags, were carried, or"trooped", down the rank so that theycould be seen and recognised by the sol-diers.
In the 18th Century, guards from theroyal palaces assembled daily on HorseGuards to "troop the colours", and in1748, it was announced that the paradewould also mark the sovereign's officialbirthday.
The Queen's actual birthday was on 21April, when she turned 89. The Duke ofEdinburgh celebrated his 94th birthday onWednesday.
It is the 63rd time the Queen has attend-ed a birthday parade, a record unmatchedby any monarch. Joined by all other seniorroyals, the monarch inspected 1,100 sol-diers of the Household Division at HorseGuards Parade.
Over 15,000...Left-Wing Extremism during this peri-
Also, as many as 4,768 naxalites werekilled by security forces between 1980and May 31, 2015, an RTI query hasrevealed.
Another query under the RTI Act hadthe ministry stating that Rs 3,038.86 crorewas disbursed among the various states inthe last three years for the modernisationof the police force.
Between the 2012-13 and 2014-15 fiscalyears, Andhra Pradesh received Rs 161crore under Modernisation of Police Force(MPF) scheme while Uttar Pradesh got Rs377 crore. Among other states,Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand received Rs73 crore and Rs 69 crore, respectively.
Following the bifurcation of AP, thenewly-formed state of Telangana receivedRs 68.13 crore in 2014-15.
A third RTI query found that the min-istry has given approval to develop 400fortified police stations and posts in 10Left-Wing Extremism-affected states.
A sum of Rs 2 crore is being released foreach fortified station with the expenditurein this regard to be shared on a 80: 20basis by the Centre and the specific state,the ministry informed.
PM Modi wishes ...everyone's life," the prime minister said.Raja Parba is a three-day festival dedi-
cated to Basu mata, the Earth goddess.
Minor girl...house,” Anees Ahmed Ansari, SP,
Fatehpur was quoted by ANI.The victim's father has claimed that the
the four accused had plucked mangoesfrom his orchard, and he had raised objec-tion over it.
“They thrashed my daughter and set heron fire to take revenge,” he was quoted byANI.
A case has been registered under IPCSection 302 and 452 and investigation isunderway.
Dead worms...landed in trouble after this discovery.Narrating the trauma she and her family
members went through, Tanisha, a resi-dent of Mahanagar, said, "It was onSaturday morning that I opened theComplan packet and added few spoons ofthe food supplement in milk. However, assoon as I stirred the food drink, I wasamazed to see virtually a can of whiteworms and some dead insects floating onthe surface."
The Food Safety and DrugAdministration (FSDA) on Saturday senta sample of Complan for testing after herhusband Darshan Singhania filed a com-plaint.
Authorities also issued a notice to themanufacturer of Complan for selling a“poor quality product”.
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DELHIUnion Minister Rajyavardhan
Rathore said on Sunday that theMyanmar operation was notcovert operation but overt andthat the Indian Army soldierswere in uniform.
Talking to ANI he said, “Thiswas not a covert operation. Incovert operation, soldiers don'twear uniform. In this operation,it was overt, our soldiers were inuniform, TV journalists shouldknow all this.”
About how the operation byIndian Army had rattledPakistan, Rathore said, “Attackwas somewhere else but painwas felt elsewhere. Pakistanreacted, their PM also made astatement. Why even GeneralMusharraf gave a threatening
statement. He barely got per-mission to enter his own coun-try, but threatened India.”
On his tweet on the operationattracting criticism he main-tained, "It is said attack is bestform of defense.1 had to attackbut in our country people have aproblem with that. Some jour-nalists called me and said that Ishould not have tweeted onchappan inch chaati."
Indian Army had carried out asurgical s inside Myanmar onJune 09. The operation inMyanmar was carried out by acrack team of about 70 com-mandos of the Indian Army whofinished the operation within 40minutes, leaving 38 Naga insur-gents dead and seven injured.
The decision was taken hours
after the Naga militants hadkilled 18 soldiers in an ambushin Chandel area of Manipur onJune 4 and clearance wasobtained from Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on the night ofJune 7, soon after his returnfrom Bangladesh, sources hadsaid privy to the details, as perPTI.
The commandos of 21 Para,equipped with assault rifles,rocket launchers, grenades andnight vision goggles, were airdropped from Dhruv helicop-ters, just inside the Indian terri-tory near the border withMyanmar, security sources hadsaid.
Once on the ground, the con-tingent of the special forces splitinto two groups and headed for
two camps being run byNSCN(K) and KYKL, who arebelieved to be responsible forthe deadly ambush on June 4,they had said.
The teams trekked through thethick jungles for at least fivekilometers before they reachedthe training camps.
The actual operation (hittingthe camp and destroying it) tookabout 40 minutes. Not only didthe commandos kill those pres-ent at the camps in gun fight,during which rocket launcherswere also used, one of the campwas also set afire.
Thermal imagery was alsoused to track the operationabout which Myanmareseauthorities were kept in theloop, they said.
Myanmar operation was not covert, our soldiers werein uniform: Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore
SCIENCE & TECH6 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | JUNE 15, 2015Fight for right
Iranian officials withaccess to classifiedinformation will be for-
bidden from using smart-phones in connection withtheir work because of fearsof espionage, a securityofficial said Saturday.
Such phones are notsecure as "data entered onto them is backed up, can-not be removed and can beaccessed," BrigadierGeneral Gholamreza Jalalitold ISNA news agency,alluding to smartphoneapplications and manufac-turers.
Jalali, head of Iran'sCivil DefenceOrganisation, said the newrule, which is pending final
approval, would mean offi-cials "should use otherphones for work thatinvolves sensitive informa-tion."
There is nothing to stopsuch workers using smart-phones in their privatelives, based on what hesaid.
The restrictions, howev-er, come after reports thatnuclear talks between Iranand world powers whichface a June 30 deadlinewere compromised bycyber hacking.
Swiss and Austrianauthorities said Thursdaythey had opened separateprobes into alleged spyingin hotels where the nuclear
negotiations are takingplace.
IT experts pointed thefinger at Israel, which islobbying hard against thenuclear diplomacy, butdeputy foreign ministerTzipi Hotovely denied itssecret services were
involved.Iran is sensitive to cyber
threats as its nuclear pro-gramme was hit in 2010 byStuxnet, a cyber virus thatravaged its Natanz atomicfacility, an attack Tehranblamed on Israel and theUnited States.
1. The use of spinning wheel (Charkha) became com-mon during the
A. 9th Century AD B. 10th Century ADC. 12th Century AD D. 14th Century AD
2. The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha wasA. Bhojpuri B. MagadhiC. Pali D. Sanskrit
3. Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of
A. Travancore B. BarodaC. Hyderabad D. Mysore
4. Under the Mountbatten Plan of 1947 the people of___ were given the right to decide through a plebiscitewhether they wished to join Pakistan or India.
A. Assam B. PunjabC. Bengal D. N.W.F.P and the Sylhet district of Assam
QUIZ TIME
Answer: 1(D), 2(C), 3(A), 4(D)
TODAY’S STARARIES You may be in a difficult position, Aries, as a critical part of a pend-
ing decision. Your first reaction may be to throw up your hands andleave the decision to someone else. Making a choice is too tough,so you find that you'd rather not have to make it at all. Unfortunately,it looks like everyone else has the same idea. Deep down, you havean opinion that needs to be heard.
TAURUS Your self-esteem should be strong these days, Taurus, helping youbuild more confidence in yourself every day. There may be a glitchin the action today, however, as someone with an extreme perspec-tive on things suddenly steps into the picture. Your emotions maysuddenly swing from one end of the spectrum to the other. Do yourbest to stay calm.
GEMINI A ray of sunshine is likely to shine on you, Gemini. Things may have beencloudy lately, making it harder for you to maintain a positive disposition.Today's news will be uplifting, and you will likely be reminded of all the goodtimes in store for you. Others may feel a bit of stress, but you should be ableto see through this and appreciate the benefits of the situation.
CANCER Recent hesitation on your part may have suddenly put you in a bind, Cancer. Itmay feel like you've reached gridlock and your choices are limited. You can nolonger get a solid handle on things. Instead of trying to make a move now, youmay have to wait until the dust settles and you can see clearly again. Let the sit-uation release before you add any more friction.
LEO There are powerful forces operating now, Leo. Whether you realize it or not, youhave tremendous control over the direction of these energies. Take control of thesituation instead of letting someone else do it for you. You will find that other peo-ple are more malleable than usual, making them quite willing to move forward inwhatever direction you point them.
VIRGO If conflict arises in your world, Virgo, you must keep in mind thatthere is no one else to blame except you. Keeping your sights seton one goal is useful as you concentrate all your energy towardthat one thing. At the same time, you may be losing perspective onwhat's going on around you. Make sure you continue to be a teamplayer by keeping an eye out for the people in the wings.
LIBRA Life may seem like a great train ride, Libra. You have yourown little compartment that you're striving to keep comfort-able and neat. The company you keep is important, as isyour proximity to the food car. Be careful that you don't getso wrapped up in your own little world that you neglect topay heed to where the train is headed.
SCORPIO You need to learn an important lesson in follow-through, Scorpio.As you strive for perfection, you may get the feeling that nothing isever fully completed. Try not to be so hard on yourself. The workyou've finished so far is more than likely much better than whatmost people could ever accomplish. Put the final touches on what-ever you're doing and move on.
SAGITTARIUS Most of the time you deal with the facts, Sagittarius. Facts are thingsyou can grasp, categorize, and make rational sense of. Unfortunately,today some of your facts may be challenged by one of the things youfear most - intense emotions. The ensuing friction is like dealing withapples and oranges. You may find it hard to find any common groundfrom which to negotiate.
CAPRICORN You may be hit with some extreme circumstances that causeyou to feel uneasy about continuing along your path, Capricorn.Use this jolt as a reminder that nothing is set in stone. An ele-ment of the unexpected can always creep up on you. Deepdown, you probably had a feeling that this difficult situation wasbound to happen eventually.
AQUARIUS You may feel like you're on a road to adventure and excited aboutthe frontiers you're encountering, Aquarius. Unfortunately, itseems that not everyone is as excited about this path as you are.Blows to your ego are apt to hit hard, but try not to let this deteryou. This is more than likely a result of other people's jealousy ofyour incredible strength and bravery.
PISCES There's a tremendously sensitive side to your personality that's tenderand extremely vulnerable, Pisces. Be careful about putting too muchof yourself out there now. By opening yourself up so much, you're invit-ing in trouble. Others might not be that aware of how sensitive you are.Those with strong, boisterous spirits are likely to be abrasive, so pro-tect your emotions.
When Nasalaunches its nextmission on the
journey to Mars - a station-ary lander in 2016 - theflight will include two rev-olutionary CubeSats.
CubeSats are a class ofspacecraft based on a stan-dardised small size andmodular use of off-the-shelf technologies.
Several such CubeSatshave been made by univer-
sity students and dozenshave been launched intoEarth orbit using extrapayload mass available onlaunches of larger space-craft.
If the flyby demonstra-tion is successful, the tech-nology will provide Nasathe ability to quickly trans-mit status informationabout the main spacecraftafter it lands on Mars, theUS space agency said in a
statement.The twin communica-
tions-relay CubeSats,being built by Nasa's JetPropulsion Laboratory(JPL), Pasadena,California, constitute atechnology demonstrationcalled Mars Cube One(MarCO).
MarCO will launch inMarch 2016 on the sameUnited Launch AllianceAtlas V rocket as Nasa's
InSight (InteriorExploration using SeismicInvestigations, Geodesyand Heat Transport) lan-der. Insight is Nasa's firstmission to understand theinterior structure of theRed Planet.
MarCO will fly by Marswhile InSight will land onMars in September 2016.
"MarCO is an experi-mental capability that hasbeen added to the InSightmission, but is not neededfor mission success," saidJim Green, director ofNasa's planetary sciencedivision at the agency'sheadquarters inWashington, DC. MarCOwill fly independently toMars, he added.
The two CubeSats willseparate from the Atlas Vbooster after launch andtravel along their own tra-jectories to the Red Planet.
After release from thelaunch vehicle, MarCO'sfirst challenges are todeploy two radio antennasand two solar panels.
MarCO will be navigat-ed to Mars independentlyof the InSight spacecraftwith its own course adjust-ments on the way.
Nasa's InSight Mars Lander Missionin 2016 to Carry CubeSats
Frequent smartphone users aremore likely to have an enlargedmedian nerve and have their
hand function and pinch strengthimpaired, says a new study.
However, the study, publishedonline in Muscle & Nerve, doesn'tclearly link heavy smartphone use tocarpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), med-scape reported.
"The exact clinical relevance of thestudy findings is not known. Futurestudies are warranted to address theclinical relevance of median nerveenlargement in high smartphoneusers," lead author Esra Erkol Inalfrom Suleyman Demirel University,Turkey was quoted as saying.
"Still, youngsters should be awareof the dangers of these pocketdevices," she added.
A hand-held smartphone compelsthe user to engage in repetitive flex-ion/extension of the wrist and to usetheir thumb to text, movements thatare involved in the etio-pathophysiol-ogy of CTS, the researchers said.
Research suggests that studentsnow typically spend more than three
hours a day texting, emailing, sched-uling, and browsing the internet ontheir mobile phone.
The current study included 102university students, 66 of whom useda single-hand-held smartphone and36 of whom didn't use a smartphone.
Researchers divided participantsinto three groups according to theirlevel of smartphone use: nonusers,low users, and high users.
They based this use according tothe Smartphone Addiction Scale(SAS). There are no official diagnos-tic criteria for smartphone addiction,but based on Internet addiction, it'sdefined as the overuse of smart-phones to the extent that it disturbsthe users' daily lives, Inal said.
"It has been reported that smart-phone addiction has many features ofaddiction, such as tolerance, with-drawal symptoms, preoccupation,mood dysregulation, craving, andloss of control," she said.
Students in the study with an SASscore of 84 (the median score) orgreater were considered high usersand those with a score under 84 were
considered low users.Researchers carried out several
functional evaluations. Theresearchers found that the mediannerve ratios were significantly higherin participants with high smartphoneuse compared with nonusers.
Ultrasonography also showed theenlargement of FPL tendon in allgroups, but most markedly in highsmartphone users. This suggestsoveruse, said Inal.
"Clinicians should be careful aboutthe median nerve and the flexor pol-licis longus tendon when examiningthe hand of someone who is a fre-quent smartphone user," she said.
The study also showed that SASscores correlated with pinch strength.Pain in the thumb rose with anincrease in SAS score.
It might be possible to prevent therepetitive flexion/extension of thewrist and lessen the enlargement ofthe medial nerve by using a smart-phone with two hands instead of one.Putting the keys at the top of thesmartphone may also lessen theserisks.
Frequent Smartphone Use CanImpair Hand Function: Study
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SPORTS7 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | JUNE 15, 2015Fight for right
Virat Kohli relishes unleashingoff-spinning 'twins' on oppositionFATULLAH
India's Test skipper ViratKohli lauded the intensityof his bowlers, led by off-spinning "twins"Harbhajan Singh andRavichandran Ashwin,despite a rain-marred drawin the one-off Test againstBangladesh here onSunday.
India and Bangladeshwere forced to accept adraw after heavy downpourin the last five daysensured very little action atthe Khan Shaheb OsmanAli Stadium.
After India declared theirfirst innings at 462/6,Bangladesh were bowledout for 256 and wereforced to bat again on thefifth day. The hosts were23/0 when both captainsagreed to call it a draw on
Sunday. India's off-spintwins Harbhajan (3/64) andAshwin (5/87) claimedeight of Bangladesh's 10first-innings wickets toforce them to follow-on.
"One very pleasing thingwas the intent our bowlersshowed throughout to takewickets," Kohli said afterthe game. "They wereintense and aggressive irre-spective of the situation ofthe game. There were noexcuses and no cribbingout there. As the captainthat really pleases me.
"Especially when we arefielding it is important tohave that attitude andintensity because that is theonly time when all 11 play-ers are on the field. That’swhen the real meaning ofteam is understood andfelt," he added.Kohli said it
was fascinating to watchIndia's two leading tweak-ers work their magic in tan-dem."Watching them bowltogether was very excitingfor me and I think theyenjoyed it as well. One wasputting pressure, the othertook wickets," Kohli said.
"I would like to haveplayers who can win usgames and both of themcertainly have that ability,especially with a long sea-son in the subcontinentahead of us. We need tobuild for that. The confi-dence they build in thisseason will help us in thefuture."Kohli also said theteam will benefit fromShikhar Dhawan's return toform. After a prlonged poorrun, Dhawan hit an aggres-sive 173 in the Test.
"Shikhar, I’ve always felt
that once he gets going in aTest he can do the job forus that Viru pa used to do.He is one player who canturn a session around for uscompletely and that couldbe the difference betweenus winning, drawing orending up on the losingside.
"For him to score bigruns in this game is a con-fidence booster for theteam because now we havethree openers who are inform (Dhawan, MuraliVijay and KL Rahul).
s"We might have someselection nightmares but itis a good place to be in as ateam. We really want himto play like this in Testmatches regardless ofwhere we play. It is goingto benefit the team," heopined.
One of the best phases of mycareer: Ravichandran Ashwin
FATULLAHIndia off-spinner
Ravichandran Ashwin,fresh from a five-wickethaul in the one-off Testagainst Bangladesh, isenjoying "one of the bestphases" of his career.
"It certainly feels that Iam bowling at my best, itis one of the best phases
that I have had. But Ihave said that in the pastas well, so I might sur-prise myself again.Anyway the learningnever stops," saidAshwin when askedabout his bowling.
He troubled theBangladesh batsmen bygenerating sharp turn
and bounce, ending withwith figures of five for87.
Ashwin further said: "Ithink one area I haveimproved on is that I ambowling better with theKookaburra ball. Also, Ihave been trying to usethe angles more. Overall,it was a wholesome per-
formance here."India had two off spin-
ners in the eleven withthe return of HarbhajanSingh. Does Ashwin feelthe competition?
"As an individual, Ijust focus on how I canget better rather thanthinking about the com-petition," he added.
KOLKATAFormer captain Sourav
Ganguly, who is now a partof the Indian CricketBoard's advisory commit-tee, on Sunday said that theBCCI is yet to formallydecide on Ravi Shastri'stenure as the TeamDirector.
Ganguly said Shastri'sfate will be decided in thenext meeting of the BCCI.
"We don't have any newson this now. During nextmeeting of the Board, itwill definitely be knownwho will be India's coach,"Ganguly told reportershere.
Asked whether Shastrihad the support of all andsundry, Ganguly was curtin his reply.
"The Board will decide,"he simply said.
Meanwhile, talking aboutthe team combination ofthe ongoing one-off Testagainst Bangladesh in
Fatullah, Ganguly support-ed Rohit Sharma's inclu-sion in the playing elevenin place of CheteshwarPujara. "If Virat Kohliwants to play five bowlersthen one batsman has to bedropped. In the last Testmatch, Rohit was in form,so its absolutely fine. In thelast Sydney match, Rohit
played in the same posi-tion," Ganguly said.
The ongoing Test againstBangladesh also witnessedthe return of HarbhajanSingh and Ganguly hopedthe senior off-spinner willget more chances in thenear future.
"He took three wickets.Hope he plays in future,
then you will find out (howhe has fared)," Gangulysaid.
Ganguly also said that heis likely to play in the newTwenty20 competition forformer international play-ers being planned bySachin Tendulkar andShane Warne to be heldlater this year.
Ravi Shastri's fate to be decidedin next meeting: Sourav Ganguly
Salman Butt told to admit spot-fixingor face more sanctions: Sources
KARACHIBanned former
Test captain SalmanButt has been told inclear terms byPakistan CricketBoard to admit hisinvolvement in 2010spot-fixing incidentin England or elseface the prospect ofhis suspension beingextended to 10 years,according to sources.
A senior Boardofficial said the PCBhad been in constanttouch with Butt andhis lawyer in thisregard but so far theformer captain wasnot willing to admithis full and directinvolvement in thespot-fixing scandalduring the fourthTest at Lord's fiveyears ago.
The ICC banned
Butt and pacebowlers MuhammadAamir andMuhammad Asif forspot-fixing duringthe Test with all ofthem getting mini-mum five-year bans.The ICC's anti-cor-
ruption tribunal alsoimposed a suspend-ed five-year ban onButt.
The PCB officialsaid that this five-year suspended bancould be added up ifButt did not meet
with the require-ments of the ICC'santi-corruption code.
Butt's five-yearactive ban ends inSeptember this yearwhile Aamir hasalready been given arelaxation by the
ICC and allowed toresume playingdomestic cricketbefore his ban ends,also in September.
"When the PCBwrote a letter toSalman Butt earlierthis year and whenhe also met with sen-ior officials headmitted that he hadviolated the ICC'santi-corruption lawsand should haveinformed them aboutany approach madeto him," the seniorBoard official toldPTI. "But he has yetto admit that he wasdirectly involved instaging the spot-fix-ing incidents duringthe Test match. He isyet to admit he didreal time spot-fix-ing," the officialsaid.
Indian footballers undergotraining ahead of Guam matchGUAM
Jet-lagged after a longflight, the Indian footballteam on Sunday underwent atraining session ahead oftheir 2018 World CupQualification PreliminaryRound Two match againstGuam here on Tuesday.
The team spent some 16hours in the air and landed inGuam 27 hours after leavingBengaluru on June 12. Theyhad their first training ses-sion this afternoon at theGuam FA Stadium.
"It was a nice session. It'san artificial surface and weworked the ball around get-ting a feel of the pitch. It'simportant that we adjust toeverything, and fast," head
coach Stephen Constantinesaid.
India play Guam on June16 in their second Group Dmatch. They had lost toOman 1-2 in their first matchin Bengaluru on June 11.Guam, on the other hand,had beaten Turkmenistan bya solitary goal in their firstmatch at home on June 11.
As soon as the Indiansreached Guam, an unincor-porated organised territory ofthe United States in the west-ern Pacific Ocean, yesterday,they headed for the beachesand had their exercises --running and stretching --there. "It was a very longtrip. We spent a lot of time inthe air and it was very tiring.
The body needs to adapt tothe different surroundings,the jet lag is always there andobviously, there's a change inthe time zone as well,"Constantine said.
"So when we arrived, thetemptation was there to goand rest. But it was veryimportant to train and hence,the moment we checked in,we changed and wentstraight to the beach. We didsome core stability exercises,some running and lots ofstretching. The reason forthat was that we did not wantthe players to go to sleepimmediately and wanted allto get a good sleep in thetimeframe where we are," headded.
Director I.A. Siddiqueand lead actorGabriel Vats of
upcoming film I Am Mr.Mother have penned a letter,requesting superstar AamirKhan to lend support to theissue of pregnancy deaths.
Pregnancy deaths form acore theme of the film, high-lighting the pain andanguish that women feelduring childbirth.
Excerpts of the letter: “Sir,you have displayed extremededication towards socialcauses, including (via) yourpopular TV show SatyamevJayate where you’ve high-lighted serious issues likefemale foeticide and vio-lence against women.Similarly, my film showsthe importance and difficul-ties associated with givingbirth to a life. Severalwomen lose their life duringpregnancy and my filmaddresses this situation andconveys a message aboutthese deaths.”
Siddique wants Aamir tonot only support the issue,but also to watch their filmand share his feedback onsocial media.
The director Siddiquefeels this way, people willcome to watch the movie,and there will be moreawareness of the sensitivesubject of pregnancy deaths.Siddique is certain that
Aamir’s feedback willenrich him as an individualand as a filmmaker.
The film, produced byRaju K. Sontakke under thebanner Shri Raja
Productions, is gearing upfor release this July. It is adark, emotional story aboutpain, anguish, love and sac-rifice involving a pregnantman.
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Tobacco claims near-ly six million livesevery year.
According to the WorldHealth Organisation(WHO), more than fivemillion of these deaths arethe result of direct tobaccouse, whereas second handsmoke causes more than600,000 premature deathsin non-smokers.
The effects of smokingare deadly. It can affectalmost every organ of thebody. The effects of tobac-co use are even more dead-ly in people with diabetes.Because nicotine in tobac-co increases blood sugar
levels among smokers withdiabetes. High blood sugarlevels in return canincrease the risk of seriousdiabetes complications likeheart attack, stroke, kidneyfailure and nerve damage.
On the occasion of WorldNo Tobacco Day (WNTD),which falls on May 31, DrK Vijay Kumar, MBBS,MD (Internal Medicine),Consultant Physician andDiabetologist, Multi-spe-ciality hospitals,Bangalore, talked toSalome Phelamei of ZeeMedia Corp on why tobac-co use is particularly badfor people with diabetes.
Dr Vijay is a part ofDiabetacare, a leading dia-betes service provider thatoffers 24X7 diabetes careto patients in a manner thatis efficient, effective andaffordable.
The Diabetacare is aninitiative of medical lead-ers from UK and Indiacombining expertise inDiabetes, eHealthcare &business.
Dr K Vijay Kumar is aLife Member of ResearchSociety for Study ofDiabetes in India and theIndian MedicalAssociation.
Every year, on May 31,
the World HealthOrganisation (WHO) andpartners celebrate WNTD,highlighting the healthrisks associated withtobacco use and advocat-ing for effective policies toreduce tobacco consump-tion.
Below are excerpts fromthe interview:
Does tobacco useincrease the risk of dia-betes?
Yes. Tobacco canincrease blood sugar levelsand also lead to resistanceof insulin in the body.Studies have shown adose-responsive increasein the relative incidence ofdiabetes in smokers, andthat smokers are threetimes more at risk of dia-betes than non-smokers.
Why is smoking particu-larly bad for diabetics?
Diabetes is a chronic dis-ease and if not managedproperly can lead to long-term complications such asheart disease, kidney dis-ease (nephropathy), nervedisease (neuropathy), eyedisease (retinopathy) andfoot disease. Smokingcombined with diabetesincreases the risk andseverity of diabetes com-
plications.Smoking can in fact
accelerate the onset of dia-betes related complica-tions due to its metaboliceffects in combinationwith increased inflamma-tion and endothelial dys-function (damage to theinner lining of blood ves-sels).
What are the harmfuleffects of smoking withdiabetes?
As smoking increasesblood sugar levels, main-taining good blood sugarcount can be difficult forsmokers. It is clearlyestablished that smoking isa fairly large and inde-pendent risk factor forheart disease, stroke andperipheral vascular diseasein people with diabetes.Smokers are also more atrisk for nerve and kidneydamage.
How does smokingincrease heart disease riskin diabetics?
About 20% of deathsfrom heart diseases areattributed to smoking.Smokers are three timesmore likely to die fromheart diseases than peoplewith diabetes who are non-smokers.
'Smokers are three times more atrisk of diabetes than non-smokers'
Chris Pratt is on a roll! First, hemad an an amazing transfor-mation from his Parks and
Recreation chubby body to chiselledphysique he is sporting. Then he wenton to star in Guardians of the Galaxy,that is said to be one the best and the
biggest entries in the MCU franchise.Now his latest film, Jurassic World, isbreaking records of all sorts!
With the movie already out andbeing liked by many for its specialeffects and especially Chris Pratt’scharming-in-a-Indiana-Jones-sort-of-
way character, there is more happynews for the star’s fans. He has him-self confirmed that he is locked on todo more sequels.
During a recent interview, the actorsaid that the production company haslocked him for 38 movies or more.Though, the reply is definitely intongue-in-cheek sense, two thingscan definitely be confirmed – AJurassic World sequel in on the way,and he is definitely on to do a few ofthem. So yay!
Pratt also spoke about what attract-ed him to the film, “When we pick upon our movie, it’s not this excitingpark that no one can believe. I justliked the idea that the park is openand also attendance is falling off. Inthis world, dinosaurs have beenaround for 20 years. So no one thinksthey’re fascinating anymore. Kids arebored with them. Instead of beingmesmerized by a T-Rex, they’re atthe park and they’re looking at theiriPhones.”
Looking forward to more suchsequels, are we?
Chris Pratt definitely on the ship fora few more Jurassic World sequels!
Aamir sought by makers of a socially relevantmovie that highlights pregnancy deaths
NEW DELHIIt was so glittery all over the sets of
'khwahishen' - a film by Moonlight pro-duction. Adding a film to it's credit aftergrand success of skits and ad filmsDelhi lad Param MLP, producer anddirector of film expressed 'we addedanother feather in our cap with actressSamira Khan of Parwarish fame.
Her other serials like 'Kabhi saas bhikabhi bahu thi', 'Kahani Ghar Ghar ki'of Balaji films were great hits. "My thisfilm is a family drama. Our artists haveput in their hundred percent to show-case so called showbiz life of the socie-ty and I hope that like every hit drama,this film will attract people from allwalks of life, he said. Actress Samiraexpressed that it was a different experi-ence to work with Moonlight produc-tions. I will try to give my best in thisfilm too like my previous films and I amoptimistic that people will find my char-acter with the pace of the film, she says.
The film has been shot at variouslocations of Delhi and Jaipur. AryaSingh has been music director whereasNoor, Kailash and Amit has given play-back. Promos of film are expected soon.
This film of mine is a familydrama: Param MLP
Shah Rukh Khan’s Dilwale co-star KritiSanon watches DDLJ at Maratha Mandir!
Last week, young actress KritiSanon watched her all timefavourite film, Dilwale
Dulhania Le Jayenge starring ShahRukh Khan and Kajol, at the onlytheatre in the country screening thefilm. She went incognito to MarathaMandir just to watch the film whichreleased way back in 1995 and is thelongest running film in history ofIndian cinema
The Heropanti heroine, who comesfrom Delh,i is a huge fan of the filmDDLJ and she has seen the movieseveral number of times. Yet she wasvery keen to watch the film on the bigscreen and wanted to experience it allover again. And watching it on thebig screen was a different experienceall together! Irony is that Kriti willalso be seen working with the twoactors in her upcoming film, RohitShetty’s Dilwale. The film starringSRK, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kritiis on floors currently. Kriti felt pure-ly nostalgic when she saw the filmagain on the big screen and all thememories came rushing back to her.
